Structural Rivet Installation With a Lever Riveter Transcript

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Bob: Welcome back to Albany County Fasteners, Fasteners 101. I'm Bob and today I'm going to demonstrate the installation of a structural rivet, stainless steel, with this monster tool.

So I have my Norseman. My 1/4 inch Norsemen-Viking CTD bit. It's a new bit. I'm just going to add some lubricant to it and then I'm just going to drill some holes to demonstrate the installation of a structural rivet.

That's one. This is 3/8" steel that we're going through. Two. We'll do three holes. Amazing bit. That's our third hole. So I have a structural rivet here. As you can see this rivet is stainless steel. This is one of the hardest rivets to put in place. Stainless steel does give you a little more resistance, but not as much as everybody thinks.

I have my bolt cutter type riveter tool and I'm going to install the the rivet. To put the rivet in here, you need to-you'll see it only goes so far in. It's important that the rivet sits all the way into the tool and the only way on this tool that the rivet will go all the way into the front of the nose is by opening the arms.

So I have opened the arms all the way and you saw that the rivet now falls all the way in place. I'm going to insert it into the hole and now I'm going to crimp the rivet. That's one...and two.

Bam.

So it's a two-step process. I'm going to do three of these. That's the first one. I drilled three holes, and here's the second one. So as you can see the first one pulls, starts to pull, the back of the rivet in to lock it in and then the second one pulls the balance of the mandrel through and then once it reaches its breaking point it just snaps the mandrel off and then you get a flat surface.

And then I have the last one I'm going to do. Now you just, I don't know if you heard that but, the pieces of the mandrel that are left over are actually dropping in here. Into this little cup, and I'll show you once I finish putting this last rivet in.

So you have to, to get that to drop and clear the hole, you actually have to bring the arms all the way out. So I'm going to slide the other one in, lock that in place first, and then the second one.

So I put three of them in. All three are tightly fastened. This is a 3/8" piece of steel; this is only for demonstration purposes to show you how this tool can install your rivets very effectively.

I off-screwed the cup and these are the mandrels that have been cut off after the crimping process. Those are the three that I just did and I'll show you a close-up of the actual rivet. This is the finished side. I'm going to show you now-just waiting for focus here-and now I'm going to show you the back side.

That's the backside. There's no play in this it's very solid. It's in place and locked in.

So if you were fastening two pieces of structural steel together, this is the tool and you'll want a structural rivet.