Well hell. I got to the bottom of the first page and tried to go to the second page. It took me back to the top of the first page. It will not let me go to the second page. Oh well.
When I used to work in a body shop I used pop rivets. Many years later I was working and the aviation industry and again I used pop rivets, but these were now Cherry Max, because the design was invented by Cherry aerospace. But whichever you call it, that's a pop rivet.
The other thing I used in aviation was a solid rivet. We had flat head rivets. We had dome head rivets. We had countersunk head rivets. And they all worked the same. You basically had a bolt with no threads in the shaft and no screwdriver cut in the head. You shove the bolt through your two pieces of metal and you hold the head up tight against the outside piece of metal using what is called a bucking bar. And while you Buck the rivet somebody on the other side has a rivet gun and he's beating the hell out of the end of it the sticking out of that side, which compresses the rivet, shortening it, and widening it, and it gives you a good solid grip on the hole.
Those hot rivets they used to build Bridges with are the same principle as the solid rivet, but you're looking at a rivet that's probably an inch in diameter. That's why they would get it hot - so they could compress it. They would pull it out of the fire and fling it across an open space and somebody would catch it in his rivet catcher and stick it in the hole and put his bucking bar up against it, and somebody else will take a rivet gun that looks remarkably similar to a jackhammer, and beat the hell out of it.
