Design of rivets to fasten plastics?
Design of rivets to fasten plastics?
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I'm considering using a rivet to hold two plastic moldings together, and to act as a pivot between the two halves. Can anyone point me to a resource that would help me engineer such a rivet? Material would probably be brass, main load that worries me is tensile. I'm thinking that a shouldered rivet, with a semi tubular clinch feature would work well - but what is the tensile load that I can expect such a rivet to withstand?
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RE: Design of rivets to fasten plastics?
Meanwhile, I have used eyelets for fastening plastic parts and allowing them to pivot. Even for quite small sizes the plastic will fail before the eyelet fails.
Look up Stimpson, give them a call, You will find them quite helpful.
RE: Design of rivets to fasten plastics?
RE: Design of rivets to fasten plastics?