Blind Rivets Manufacturers

Blind rivets are tension fasteners although the load is designed to carry are of much lower magnitude than socket products. One of their prime benefits is speed of installation, as they do not require threads and torquing to make up their assemblies. These are made of two assembled parts, an outer rivet body, which remains clamped in the assembly and an inner mandrel, which is drawn up tight with a riveting tool, either hand powered or more commonly powered actuated. The mandrel body separates by design during the installation by snapping off. The blind rivet bodies and mandrels are produced and supplied from several different material combinations, with steel and aluminum being the most common. They are essentially three types, which include hollow, pull-through rivets, self-plugging, friction-lock rivets and mechanical locked-stem self-plugging rivets. The pull-through rivet is mainly used for nonstructural applications.