Factory looking rivets.

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LonLB

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I've been trying to come up with a way to have factory looking rivets because I needed some that would be on the outside of the boat. I didn't want to do plain pop rivets.

I was afraid of dinging up the boat trying to install solid bucked rivets.

So I found online Shave-able rivets. These are used to make repairs on parts that are held together with bucked rivets. trailer folks use them regularly.

The best part is I bought a bag of them from the local RV surplus/salvage for a few $$$'s vs 40 bucks from a rivet supplier.

Anyhow, this is what they look like. Remember this starts out as, and is installed as a regular old pop rivet.
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this is a picture of what they are like. The nub on the head remains after the mandrel is popped.
Then grind/sand that down flush
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I'll get a picture of the ones I used, before shaving later today, but that is what they look like.
 
Here is a little more info.

https://www.boltproducts.com/marson/blind-rivets-olympic-bulb-tite.html
 

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