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Originally Posted by Max Boord
What size rivets are you using? If its the 5/32" rivets that fit in the predrilled holes then theirs your problem. 4592 was having them pop out last year quite often and this year switched to 10-32 screws and aluminum 3/16 rivets and had no problems since then. Also the quality of rivet installation makes a huge difference. Getting a pneumatic rivet gun if your not using one already is a great way to improve quality over a hand rivet gun and speed up mechanism assembly.
Welding will most likely work but its a more catastrophic failure and I would not risk it unless you have a drop in replacement for any welded sub-system or have someone experienced in welding aluminum. Another option is to gusset and weld as the gussets will both provide extra strength and hold the pieces together making them easier to weld.
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We also switched over to aluminum rivets with steel mandrels. They are a lot harder to rivet, but all too often we had poor quality Chinese rivets that would break the mandel above the rivet. Never happened again with the steel mandrel, and our forearms all look like popeye's
