Re: [a/s] Rivets Rivets Rivets

[Roy Lashway <rlashway@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Perhaps some discussion should be held on the Olympic  neopreme washers 
value.  I am not aware that Airstream recommends the washered Olympic 
Rivet although with more contemporary units I am not sure .  My concern 
is that the washer is going to deteriorate  over time.  My '78 and my '56 
were not constructed with a washered rivet and I have heard some 
discussion from time to time as to the value of this rivet verus the 
non-washered rivet.   Secondly, as an aside, I was reminded some time 
back that the pop rivet does NOT have a hole in the middle.  That when 
the rivet is installed the shaft is cut/broken off and remains in the 
hole and thus no hole exists.  Obviously this method is not sealed like 
the Olympic rivet which  requires you to grind down the rivet shaft and 
grinds it into the top of the rivet, which can be polished so you 
"hardly" notice it.

Roy Lashway