I love confusing myself. Insects are very confusing and so are rivets to some folk. I received an email from a lad who has built himself a hydraulic hot rivet squeezer. He said it’s leaving a lot of squashed metal on the job and the plate edges are distorting. These are domed headed rivets, button heads to normal folk; so both tool heads are hemispheres less a bit. I was working from memory but rivet length is 1.5 rivet diameter plus the combined thickness of the metal to be joined and add a bit for pressure vessels. You also leave a minimum of two combined metal thicknesses from the… citeste mai mult