pop riveting good or bad?

[PEG]

Yep,rivets of correct type,done right,no probs.Your holiday plane manages to stay together with em'......now the titanic,that's a different story...

 

[Geordie Spark]

Pop rivets are used extensively in the manufacture of Flight Cases and by God they take some stick day in, day out, year in, year out without any problems.

Just saying ..

 

[Silly Sausage]

Pop riviting?!?!
You need arms like your average Geordie bird's thighs.

 

[GLENNSPARK]

Yep,rivets of correct type,done right,no probs.Your holiday plane manages to stay together with em'......now the titanic,that's a different story...

no...
its glued together
a lot of aircraft during the very early years of aviation were also glued together...with rabbit skin size glue..!!
but it worked ....and worked well.....
what you did was heat up the glue over a little furnace....then spread it on (to one surface only)....then as soon as it started to tac you clamped the 2 sections together...
modern replicas of WW1 aircraft use 2 part epoxys (such as the west systems)...
but you will find such manufactureres as Boeing and Airbusindustries using 2 part adhesives to construct their airframes....

 

[Geordie Spark]

Pop riviting?!?!
You need arms like your average Geordie bird's thighs.

No, just a decent pneumatic / hydraulic riveting tool.

 

[GLENNSPARK]

No, just a decent pneumatic / hydraulic riveting tool.

aye...if in doubt get the bolster on it....

 

[Silly Sausage]

No, just a decent pneumatic / hydraulic riveting tool.

Your probably right.
Tried some last week on some Ally OG guttering with a riveter from Toolstation, failed miserably!
Doesn't leak though!

 

[Rockingit]

I've got just a simple clutch type hand riveter, doesn't see much use but when it does I've never had an issue. Oh, and I eats my oats - all these namby pamby cries of "it's hard work, it hurts my little arms...." some people need to grow a pair!!

 

[Guest55]

......now the titanic,that's a different story...

titanics white star engineers downgraded the hull plate rivets from best best iron to best iron at the last minute.
using best best iron would have bought the titanic a few more hours , long enough for the nearest other ship to arrive before sinking.

totally uninteresting yet true fact.

 

[Silly Sausage]

I've got just a simple clutch type hand riveter, doesn't see much use but when it does I've never had an issue. Oh, and I eats my oats - all these namby pamby cries of "it's hard work, it hurts my little arms...." some people need to grow a pair!!

Must be one hell of a pair!

 

[Rockingit]

Must be one hell of a pair!

Its not the size of the pair that's a problem, just the damn wheelbarrow that gets in the way all the time.