These fasteners typically come in steel stainless steel nickel copper alloy and other grades of aluminum. Blind rivets are usually categorized by the material of the rivet and then the material of the mandrel.
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Steel vs aluminum rivets. If you use aluminum rivets with steel mandrels it is likely they will outlast your ownership of the coach. We also have what we call a white hat rivet with an aluminum mandrel. If steel pop rivets are used you will have a rust problem in that area long before there would be a problem using aluminium pop rivets. So if you are using this in a wet or corrosive environment then the rivets wont last long. For example you might see aluminumsteel which means an aluminum rivet with a steel mandrel. These are just typical pop or blind rivets in aluminum.
It will seat the rivets much better than a hand powered one and they are not too expensive. This particular rivet is steel and steel. This is what they call a blind rivet. Dont get on to the roundabout if you dont know how to get off. Rivets are specified by the material of the rivet and the mandrel in that order. If you use stainless or monel i suggest getting a pneumatic pop blind rivet gun.
Yes but aluminum will corrode much faster in contact with steel because of galvanic corrosion. Often steel mandrels are specified with aluminum or stainless steel rivets because the steel mandrels are less expensive than matching aluminum or stainless mandrels. Pop rivets in my barth began deteriorating from galvanic corrosion at around 14 years of age because they fastened the aluminum skin to the steel framework. Monel rivets are expensive unless you buy them by the thousands. Thu dec 16 2004 309 pm location. The mandrel is steel and the hat is steel.
It sounds like the steel is what is actually being riveted on. However if this is in a dry indoor location where there is no corrosion the go ahead and use them. These three are aluminum rivets. You never use aluminumaluminum rivets in stress bearing applications. I replaced them with hardware store aluminum rivets. Even if you need to use aluminum rivets in situation like this where one of the materials being joined is aluminum you at least use one with a steel manderal.
Monel does not react with aluminum so you do not have to worry about isolating the rivets. Aluminumsteel aluminum rivet with steel mandrel. I would use steel rivets on steel and aluminum rivets on aluminum because of the dissimilar metals. This is a structural rivet.
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