When installing, the rivet is placed on a drilled or punched hole, and then the tail, which is the opposite side of the head, is bucked, expanding the rivet and holding the rivet in place and then ...

While I was at Manual Arts High School during the latter years of WWII, before I enlisted in the Navy in May 1945, my mother bucked rivets at an airplane factory. In fact, her name was Rose--a ...

Arc welders like reliable electrical supplies were many decades away when they were constructed, so instead they are held together with hundreds of massive rivets. They would have been ...

Screws, nuts and bolts, and pop rivets are handy sometimes. Various resins and even hot glue are equally useful. In some cases however the right fastener for the job eludes us, and we need another ...