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Aluminum / aluminum mandrel cap rivets
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<blockquote data-quote="onthewater102" data-source="post: 384507" data-attributes="member: 13702"><p>Are you sure the difficult ones aren't steel mandrels in an aluminum rivet? Depending on the source you can buy them that way so that you get a tighter grip.</p><p></p><p>I used 3/16 aluminum rivets with the steel mandrel which required a lot more force than the cheapie aluminum/aluminum ones i could get form the local hardware store. They were the ones I used originally to make my trolling motor bracket and the rivets eventually sheered off due to vibration in transit (despite all the tax money we pay in CT none of it seems to find its way into repairing roads). I had to go back through and replace them with stainless rivets which prevented this from happening again (thus far).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="onthewater102, post: 384507, member: 13702"] Are you sure the difficult ones aren't steel mandrels in an aluminum rivet? Depending on the source you can buy them that way so that you get a tighter grip. I used 3/16 aluminum rivets with the steel mandrel which required a lot more force than the cheapie aluminum/aluminum ones i could get form the local hardware store. They were the ones I used originally to make my trolling motor bracket and the rivets eventually sheered off due to vibration in transit (despite all the tax money we pay in CT none of it seems to find its way into repairing roads). I had to go back through and replace them with stainless rivets which prevented this from happening again (thus far). [/QUOTE]
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