Rivets (Pack of 50) - AD68ABSLF | Part # 330034-100

The humble rivet. Every Airstream travel trailer is held together by over 4,000 of these small, mushroom-shaped pieces of hardware. Installed by hand in an intricate, coordinated dance by teams of two – one person outside the shell to place and hammer the rivet, another inside to hold a bucking bar so the "stem" end collapses – the rivets in an Airstream travel trailer create waterproof seams between each aluminum sheet. The most amazing part? Each member of the team cannot see the other. It takes teamwork and rhythm to efficiently install thousands of rivets every day. Different than a buck rivet, a blind or POP rivet requires the use of a special POP rivet handgun to install. Each blind rivet has three parts: a shell that's inserted into the hole, the rounded-flat head, and the mandrel (a long stem that's pulled by the POP rivet gun in order to collapse the rivet). This rivet is used in various applications such as the LP Tank Cover mounting bracket. The solid rivets are installed at