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From time to time you may have the need around your home to put together two pieces of metal to
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mechanically fasten them. For example, it's your home like mine. I have up there in the corner a
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metal gutter. It's aluminum and the cap is actually pop riveted or attached to the gutter. To pop
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rivet two pieces of metal together you need just a few simple tools. You need to have the actual pop
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rivet tool itself as well as the pop rivets and the tool comes with some very cool 1 1
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1 inch diameter drill bits that fit into a standard drill. I'm going to pop rivet these
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two pieces of metal together and to hold them in place I'm going to use a simple clamp just
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to go ahead and lock them and hold them together exactly where I want them. You have to drill
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a 1 1 1 inch diameter hole that the rivet passes through. This is the actual pop rivet
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itself and here's how it works. Notice this long shaft. It looks just like a nail and it really is
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because it has a large head back here. As you squeeze the handles of the tool, it pulls that
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shaft through and mushrooms or enlarges this end of the pop rivet. These pop rivet tools are
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fantastic. It's something you should have around your home. You never know when you might need one
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and let me tell you, I understand that in this day and age of being politically correct that
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they might be having a mom rivet tool next month. I'm Tim Carter, Ask the Builder
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