How to Use Pop Nuts?

There are many kinds of rivet-type fasteners each of which is employed for a certain purpose. Take the blind rivet nuts as an example, it is 'blind' because the riveting is done from the one side whilst the other remains unseen, it is not as capable of bearing heavy loads as other kinds of rivets, but a blind rivet-type is easy to use and have a neat appearance, it is suitable to decoration works.

Pop nut has a peculiar ring to it that sounds like the noise a riveting gun makes. Pop rivets have something called a 'mandrel' in the middle which is the portion that expands when it is fastened and then snaps off at the end.

One of the problems with these rivet-types is that the mandrel is susceptible to loosening as a result of vibrations. If the mandrel falls out, the rivet will be hollow inside and therefore not very strong and because of the mandrel this rivet-type tends to rust more easily.

You will need a special riveting gun in order to successfully squash the buck-tail of any kind of rivet so that it holds the two construction surfaces in place and this goes for all rivet-types, not just pop nuts.