Use of pop-rivets?

[M.Wong]

Sorry I should have elaborated. My team uses 1/16" thick 1"x1" aluminum tubing in most of our applications (we haven't quite reached a point where we use sheet metal). Our style of robot building works well with bolts, and I don't really see us changing (unless we start using sheet metal more extensively).

[IzzieB]

They're really useful for little things like spacers, lexan, etc.

[Jamie Kalb]

Originally Posted by IzzieB

They're really useful for little things like spacers, lexan, etc.

What kind of spacer would you secure with a rivet?

[DonRotolo]

We use pop rivets of varying sizes everywhere. Only items which must use a bolt (such as an axle) get screw threads, everything else is a rivet.

[IzzieB]

Originally Posted by Jamie Kalb

What kind of spacer would you secure with a rivet?

They were really thin lexan ones on the base--they weren't secured solely with rivets. Rivets simply helped in holding down the middle.

[rahilm]

Originally Posted by M.Wong

Sorry I should have elaborated. My team uses 1/16" thick 1"x1" aluminum tubing in most of our applications (we haven't quite reached a point where we use sheet metal). Our style of robot building works well with bolts, and I don't really see us changing (unless we start using sheet metal more extensively).

We didn't use rivets much this year, but that was almost our entire hardware for Lunacy. Our robot that year was pretty much just 1/8" and 1/16" stock metals (angle, tube, etc.) and they work really well. Replacing them (which we rarely had to do) was pretty quick and easy.