TIP: long stem, blind, snap rivet reuse.

Jan 15, 2016 1 Replies

For holding, through grommets, reverb tank to steel chassis, so not the usual small ones for DSP boards etc. You cannot reinsert, blind, as the



4 splay bits are permanently splayed out. Find a metal plate with holes the size to push each rivet in, to close back the 4 splays, then old soldering iron and hotmelt glue the 4 together. Reinsert through grommets and chassis, then the closer rivet, with more force than usual to break the hotmelt .

He seems to have found a way to re-use splay rivets by squeezing together their splayed ends with a simple jig (metal with holes), and temporarily hot-gluing them together. The rivets can then be re-used. Applying the rivet fastener with "more force than usual" completes the job by breaking off the hot glue.

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