Ribbit Rivet...

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Originally Posted by Billfred

The best picture I have of our handiwork is seen at http://www.flickr.com/photos/billfred/2283099106/ that photo is from about a week before ship day.

We did something similar with our robot this year. We used rivets (McMaster-Carr #97526A434) and I splurged and got a decent rivet gun (McMaster-Carr #90239A510). We wanted to paint the frame red and then throw on yellow rivets, but we ran out of time.

The gun worked great. The rivets held when our robot dropped off the 3 foot table we were working on. Rivets are very forgiving. We had no experience with them and all but 2 of the rivets were tight on the first application. The two that were loose were easily drilled and replaced. Those little guys saved us about 1 lbs over the bolts. We shall see how they do in competition, but right now, i'm sold.