Need help with hollow \ tube rivets \ sourcing
Need help with hollow \ tube rivets \ sourcing
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Hi there, noob here. I am having trouble creating a steel "pipe" passing through metal sheet. I obtained some 4mm metal completely hollow rivets, and have tried pushing one rivet onto the other either side of the metal sheet in a vice. Because both rivets are the same size, one of the rivets always slips sideways in the vice and crushes or distorts the other rivet.
I also tried widening one rivet with a tool, but it was not enough and did not work.
I guess what I really need is pairs of hollow rivets which are designed to fit together but I have tried for 2 months to source these uncuccessfully.
I realise I could use some kind of circlip on one side, but I am trying to produce a well finished product and don't want it to look thrown together.
Any help appreciated.
I also tried widening one rivet with a tool, but it was not enough and did not work.
I guess what I really need is pairs of hollow rivets which are designed to fit together but I have tried for 2 months to source these uncuccessfully.
I realise I could use some kind of circlip on one side, but I am trying to produce a well finished product and don't want it to look thrown together.
Any help appreciated.





RE: Need help with hollow \ tube rivets \ sourcing
It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
RE: Need help with hollow \ tube rivets \ sourcing
At first I thought I had a perfect solution, however, I discovered that when the brass grommet was squeezed into the stainless steel hollow rivet, it was a little too soft to be a permanent fixture. The hollow rivet on one side could be yanked out with a little force.
What I need now, is either to go back to the drawing board and find top hat hollow rivets which will fit one within the other, or, a new engineering problem solution of how to get a soft and cheap brass coloured rivet to stay inside another stainless steel rivet, be it glue, or soldering or whatever.
any help appreciated.
RE: Need help with hollow \ tube rivets \ sourcing
It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.