Riveting thread about rivets

dumbass question.
For a given length of rivet (say 3.2mm x 8mm) how far clear of the outer face of the material Im riveting does the pin head have to go for it to work?

I have 2x 3mm plate I want to rivet together.
Ta

http://www.ajaxfast.com.au/downloads/AjaxRivetsHandbook.pdf
http://www.roymech.co.uk/Useful_Tables/Rivets.html

Or this quality paper from the bolt council. http://www.boltcouncil.org/files/2ndEditionGuide.pdf

I saw a riveting piece on rivets on Coast yesterday.

It depends on the size (diameter) of the rivet.

Used to love doing the riveting stuff when at school/tech college. Getting a nice rounded head using the hammer was a bit of art 😯

OK, looks like Im trying to find the “grip range”.

Any idea how to find a schedule of grip ranges for certain blind rivets.

These are some on eBay:
4.8mm 12.7mm
4.8mm 8.0mm
4.0mm 5.5mm
3.2mm 16mm
3.2mm 10mm
3.2mm 8.0mm
3.2mm 5.5mm

1.5mm x shank of the rivet seems to ring in my head for some reason.

Disclaimer, I may be way off.

http://www.ehow.co.uk/how_7573409_select-right-rivet-sizes.html

rivet length – 1/8″ sound reasonable?

1.5mm x shank of the rivet

Obviously I mean 1.5 x shank!

So a 4mm diameter rivet is going to need an extra 6mm length through the plate. In practice. I had a load of rivets in my rivet gun box and used whatever was available!

cheers paul. guess Im looking for 10mm-12mm rivets for a 6mm grip range.

Make sure they are sealed rivets if you don,t want holes in whatever it is your punching rivets into.
I have 5000 rivets sized for a motorcycle exhaust but found out they weren,t sealed in the end not bad £12 wasted! 🙁
The real deal ones cost £1.65 each 😮

I’ve just looked it up in a book I still have from my apprenticeship (Chapman’s Workshop Technology part 1, 1972) and it concurs, one and a half times the diameter of the rivet.

My Dad used to sell rivets for a living.
Best use we found was an endless supply of tips for dutch arrows.

😳

Thanks, but went with nuts and bolts in the end, a bit of threadlock and a bit of superglue on the ends. Should hold 😉