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6 minutes ago, TheNewbiestONewbs said:

good to know but how much thicker is thick enough? 1in? 2in?

That would be more than thick enough but the main this is preventing the rivet from slipping out of the hole since there isn't much friction between the metal and wood which is why I recommended to use small screws. If you do want to use rivets though it can be done with ones that splay or spread apart into the soft material to give it good hold. 

http://www.hansonrivet.com/rivets/blind-pop-advel-rivets/metal-to-wood-blind-rivets-steel-steel/

So I am planning on creating my own head stand that attaches to the side of my desk with a kind of C clamp. The problem is I want to connect wood to the C clamp device by rivets. Im wondering will they hold up to the weight of a headset if I use 2 of them and will they last for possibly years of use?

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good rivets will hold a plane together so they should be fine 

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Just now, GDRRiley said:

good rivets will hold a plane together so they should be fine 

A plane also uses about 50,000 rivets. No joke that's a rounded number of how many rivets are on the plane I'm helping restoring. But will the ones from just Lowes hold?

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Just now, TheNewbiestONewbs said:

A plane also uses about 50,000 rivets. No joke that's a rounded number of how many rivets are on the plane I'm helping restoring. But will the ones from just Lowes hold?

yeah. I know that is a small plane. 

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1 minute ago, GDRRiley said:

yeah. I know that is a small plane. 

Yep. its an old trainer from the 50s.

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12 minutes ago, TheNewbiestONewbs said:

So I am planning on creating my own head stand that attaches to the side of my desk with a kind of C clamp. The problem is I want to connect wood to the C clamp device by rivets. Im wondering will they hold up to the weight of a headset if I use 2 of them and will they last for possibly years of use?

Rivets are not ideal in wood since it doesn't have much holding force, you would be beter off using some screws from the clamp into the wood holder.

 

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1 minute ago, TheNewbiestONewbs said:

Yep. its an old trainer from the 50s.

what one there are a lot from that time

 

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14 minutes ago, TheNewbiestONewbs said:

So I am planning on creating my own head stand that attaches to the side of my desk with a kind of C clamp. The problem is I want to connect wood to the C clamp device by rivets. Im wondering will they hold up to the weight of a headset if I use 2 of them and will they last for possibly years of use?

There are special rivets for this type of attachment.

 

Why not use nut & bolt with a washer or two?

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15 minutes ago, TheNewbiestONewbs said:

So I am planning on creating my own head stand that attaches to the side of my desk with a kind of C clamp. The problem is I want to connect wood to the C clamp device by rivets. Im wondering will they hold up to the weight of a headset if I use 2 of them and will they last for possibly years of use?

Well, I've never been able to break a rivet with force, but they're really easy to remove if you have a sawed knife.

 

But there's gotta be a paper that studies the maximum stress capabilities for rivets. I think.

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15 hours ago, W-L said:

Rivets are not ideal in wood since it doesn't have much holding force, you would be beter off using some screws from the clamp into the wood holder.

 

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I'm using either oak or ironwood for the wood so It can definitively hold.

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1 minute ago, TheNewbiestONewbs said:

I'm using either oak or ironwood for the wood so It can definitively hold.

It depends on how it's being riveted but if it's thin material like this you will want to using a backing washer like this to prevent it from pulling through. 

http://m.pneumaticaddict.com/54uqg52/articles/77929/How-to-Rivet-Wood-and-or-Leather

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1 hour ago, W-L said:

It depends on how it's being riveted but if it's thin material like this you will want to using a backing washer like this to prevent it from pulling through. 

http://m.pneumaticaddict.com/54uqg52/articles/77929/How-to-Rivet-Wood-and-or-Leather

good to know but how much thicker is thick enough? 1in? 2in?

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6 minutes ago, TheNewbiestONewbs said:

good to know but how much thicker is thick enough? 1in? 2in?

That would be more than thick enough but the main this is preventing the rivet from slipping out of the hole since there isn't much friction between the metal and wood which is why I recommended to use small screws. If you do want to use rivets though it can be done with ones that splay or spread apart into the soft material to give it good hold. 

http://www.hansonrivet.com/rivets/blind-pop-advel-rivets/metal-to-wood-blind-rivets-steel-steel/

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5 minutes ago, W-L said:

That would be more than thick enough but the main this is preventing the rivet from slipping out of the hole since there isn't much friction between the metal and wood which is why I recommended to use small screws. If you do want to use rivets though it can be done with ones that splay or spread apart into the soft material to give it good hold. 

http://www.hansonrivet.com/rivets/blind-pop-advel-rivets/metal-to-wood-blind-rivets-steel-steel/

Sweet. one final question. Why was this moved to case modding if this is a build plan for something going onto a desk?

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2 hours ago, TheNewbiestONewbs said:

Sweet. one final question. Why was this moved to case modding if this is a build plan for something going onto a desk?

You can make another build log it initially just looked to bea technical question about riveting. 

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1 hour ago, W-L said:

You can make another build log it initially just looked to bea technical question about riveting. 

Oh... I didn't mean it like that. I'll try to make my meaning a bit clearer next time. Thanks for responding to my questions.

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