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These only work if you can pinch the hardware on both sides and you have enough room from the edge to center line of the piece of hardware. Pop rivets work great with a pneumatic rivet gun. A manual rivet gun works in a pinch for a small aluminum rivet but is hard to exert enough force to install a large stainless steel rivet.

Also keep in mine you can use self threading screws for parts that may need to be remove occasionally or go with a clinching pem nut and a screw for parts that need high holding strength and needs to be reusable/removable.

On parts that need to be located then put in place take a look at slot and tabbing or a process called half shear.

Use the correct process to joins the parts according to function. Some joining processes are rivets, screws, bolts and nuts, double back tape, spot welding, arc welding, soldering.