Essay On Blind Rivet

5. Introduction

6. Body
6.1 Blind rivet
Blind rivet are mainly used to fast objects together where you can’t get to the back to fasten it like fastening or walls. Blind rivet get there name because you don’t need to access the rear or blind side of the joint. All of the methods you can use to fasten objects together such as screws, rivets, blots and nuts and welding are all very time consuming jobs. There is three resins for using blind rivets. It does not cost a lot for installing rivets, it is very versatile and it is very reliable. Individual blind rivets aren’t very limited in strength and shout only be used when you are fasting light weight material like aluminium.
A blind rivet consists of three parts. The stem, shell and the head stem (mandrel). They are show the shell can be placed in the hole and then it can be fastened. The rivet work by applying a force on the stem which will chose the shell to deform, clap the two objects to gather and the stem will shear of at a specific break away point. A small part of the stem will remain in the shell that will make sure that the shell will not be able to pull out of the hole. To apply the force needed on the stem you need to use a special tool which

A truss head (73) is the most common blind rivet. A truss heads protrude and sit above the face of the job. The resin for this is show that it has a footprint to shear the load. The countersunk variety (72) is the second type blind rivet. You need to have drilled countersunk holes in the products. This allow that there is no protrudes on the face of the product. The third is called a 73 ASL rivets. It has a large flanged head which you use for when the material that you want to clamp to getter is very brittle or soft. This larger head allow for a must larger footprint which the standard 73 (truss) head. A 73 ASL allow the clamping force to be shared over a larger or wider area on the