On Tue, 30 Sep 2014 07:09:17 -0400, Stormin Mormon
wrote:

On 9/29/2014 9:06 PM, micky wrote:
On Mon, 29 Sep 2014 15:25:20 -0400, wrote:

With aluminum, you don't have to add any additional protective coatings.
And alunum and steel are not your only choices. There is also Monel
and stainless steel - and likely others as well.

Thanks, Ed, Clare. Sounds exciting. I wish I had more things to
rivet. I think I hammered down one real rivet in metal shop in the
8th grade.

Real men use bang rivets. No wimpy blind pop
rivets for us Real Men.

Old blind rivets, just don't bang like they
used to.

One was to connect one piece of downspout to another. If I could have
gotten inside the pipe, I would have. Even a blind rivet had the
advantage that little would be inside the downspout. A screw,which I
was going to use, would have caught leaves and eventually gotten
clogged.

The other was to form one of two hinges on the metal box lid, of the box
that dispenses doggie detritus transport bags. The other "hinge" was
a very small plastic Xmas tree, that went through a hole in the box and
a hole in the lid, but one of them had gotten broken when the whole
thing fell over. I thought there would be truck or car tire-prints,
but there weren't. Not sure what snapped off the
_
_/ \_ metal post.