im glad to see 1501 is known when it comes to riveting
our team has used over 10,000 rivets on our robots so far, almost 2000 in some robots. They are made out of a monocoque design, which is what aircraft use. solely sheetmetal and rivets, providing a strong structure. i think youll enjoy some photos of our bots.
www.huntingtonrobotics.org
all we use are hand rivet guns and a pneumatic rivet gun (used rarely)... i have spent all nighters riveting the bots together. but it creates an amazing end product. if you would like more info, pm me and i can get it to you. and yes we do make errors, but you can just use the same drill bit you used to make the original whole and drill the rivet back out. almost as if it were never there.
and klekos are a neccessity when building with this many rivets
