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Default looking for particular form of blind rivet

On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 05:40:34 -0700, wrote:

On Oct 16, 8:24 am, _
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Had to drill a bunch of these out to get the body panels off my car. The
look like a normal (large) pop-rivet on the outside, but on the inside the
cylinder split into 4 tongues that curled outwards. I suppose the idea is
to give a larger bearing surface on the blind side.

I'll need about 50 of 'em.



Hanson has "T rivets"
http://www.hansonrivet.com/w33.htm


That's them.

and "Tri-rivets"
http://www.hansonrivet.com/w36.htm


Those look nicer.

Has anyone use these enough to recommend one variety over another?