[TowerTalk] Force12 rivets

[J.P.]

They use aluminum blind rivets with a steel mandrel I believe. 
They're available from McMaster Carr in various sizes.

At Friday, 02/18/2011 on 8:37 am Mike Ryan wrote:

The Force 12 rivets are not your standard rivet.  They use a
special kind as
I recall.  I had an XR5 here and though they may be available from
some
other outlets, I ordered a bag of 100 from F12 back then.
-- Mike

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:towertalk-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Barry Gross
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 10:50 AM
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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Force12 rivets

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Chet  wrote:

> Not sure what kind of
> failure you had. Did the problematic rivet fall out, did it get
pulled all
> the way through? Just put a new one in.
>
>
Unfortunately, it might be a week or two before I can get the AB-577
down to
look at the C3S and assess the rivet failure.

Before I "just put a new one in", I'd like to know how to avoid
having to
"just put another one in", 6 or 12 months down the road.

73, Barry N1EU
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