Rivet Styles | Features/Benefits | Materials Available |
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Open End Rivets
| - For blind fastening where there is no access to opposite side of work
- Simple to install
- Wide variety of head styles and lengths available
| - Steel/steel
- Aluminum/aluminum
- Aluminum/steel
- Stainless/stainless
- Stainless/steel
- Copper/brass
- Copper/steel
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Closed End Rivets
| - Moisture-resistant due to tight seal
- Greater shear and tensile strength
- Mandrel is retrained 100% of the time
| - Aluminum/steel
- Aluminum/aluminum
- Stainless/stainless
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Multi-Grip Rivets
| - Extended grip range capacity
- Reduces inventory (fewer sizes required)
- Use as a standard open-end rivet
- No special tools required
| - Aluminum/steel
- Steel/steel
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Q-Lok Rivets
| - Retained mandrel increases shear and tensile strength
- Use in high vibration applications
- Mandrel breaks flush when used in map-grid range
- Moisture resistant due to tight seal
- Up to 3/16" diameter
- Use in place of other structural rivets in many applications
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Klik-Lock Rivets
| - No special nosepiece required
- 360º mandrel locking feature
- Vibration proof
- Increased shear and tensile strength
- Watertight seal
- Available in 1/4" and 3/16" sizes
| - Steel/steel
- Aluminum/aluminum
- Stainless/stainless
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T-Rivets Rivets
| - High clamp up
- High shear strength
- Creates a wide bearing surface
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Special Application Rivets
| - Small flange rivet used primarily for fastening decorative materials on boats, automobiles, trucks & other motor vehicles
- Best suited to applications where a discrete, secure installation of non-critical components is needed
| - Stainless/steel
- Aluminum/aluminum
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Back Up Washers
| - Back-up washers are .056" thick
- Use when fastening soft material or to compensate for oversize holes where access to both sides of the work is possible
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Plastic Rivets
| - Precision-molded, all-nylon
- Secure lock prevents pull-out
- Fasten plastic to plastic, plastic to metal or plastic to fiberglass
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