RIVET

Rivet

Rivets are a permanent mechanical fastener. Before being installed a rivet consists of a smooth cylindrical shaft with a head on one end. The end opposite the head is called the buck-tail. On installation the rivet is placed in a punched or drilled hole, and the tail is upset, or bucked, so that it expands to about 1.5 times the original shaft diameter, holding the rivet in place. To distinguish between the two ends of the rivet, the original head is called the factory head and the deformed end is called the shop head or buck-tail.

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rivet

Noun

  1. A cylindrical mechanical fastener that attaches multiple parts together by fitting through a hole and deforming the head(s) at either end.
  2. any fixed point or certain basis
  3. a light kind of footman's armour (back-formation from almain-rivet)

Verb

  1. to attach or fasten parts by using rivets
  2. to install rivets
  3. to command the attention of.


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