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Originally Posted by Ronnie314
Alright we have always used 1/4" bolts and never have used rivets on a drive train so you could say we are "nervous" aha.
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Rivets are good. We've used 1/4 rivets which integrate nicely when we use the kitbot chassis. They are overkill for most applications but on the kitbot they are great. 3/16 is perfect for pretty much all FRC applications.
I would recommend that in some applications to think twice about using rivets. We have all too often riveted pieces together only to be stuck having to drill them out when something needs to be changed or taken off the robot. Using nuts and bolts to assemble your robot then replace them with rivets is a great idea when you find yourself designing on the fly. Nuts and bolts are also great when making mechanisms modular or to swap replacement parts easily. We designed our shooter plate this year that with four bolts we could drop our shooter motors and wheels out of our robot for repair or replacement.
Technically you can drill out a rivet faster than taking off a nut or bolt but dealing with metal shavings flying around your robot isn't always the best idea when electronics are involved.