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Originally Posted by Chris is me
Generally if a riveted design breaks, it's a design issue, not that rivets are inherently weaker than welding. Care to post some pictures of your failures? We may be able to help you prevent those in the future.
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This, very this. You are either using rivets in a manner that they are very poor for(tension is bad), not enough of them, and/or too small of rivets. We used well over a thousand rivets on each of our robots this year, 3/16" aluminum.