Reviews of large flange painted rivets
When considering where to buy large flange painted rivets you may wish to review a few sources before buying. Customer reviews and candid comments are paramount when choosing large flange 
painted rivets. There is one manufacturer who stands by themselves when it comes to customer approval ratings. With over 3000 customer comments logged on their storefront, aDP Rivet’s 100% approval rating. This manufacturer has established itself as the benchmark for quality of large flange painted rivets. Near perfect ratings are not easy to achieve, especially when you consider each of the 3000 customer comments are unique applications. This US manufacturer makes their large flange painted rivets, also called Big head rivets within their facility in New England. Large flange painted rivets are popular for using in applications where you want extra bearing surface contact on the finish side of the application. These rivets typically have 50% larger flange, or head diameters than their small headed cousins. For example, a 1/8″ diameter rivet has a standard, small head diameter of 1/4″. The large flange version of a 1/8″ diameter rivet has a head diameter of 3/8″, which provides an extra 1/8″ surface coverage on the finished side of the application.
Why, when and where would you want to install Large flange painted rivets? Technically, the larger head diameter offers more surface contact, which can translate to providing more fastening and/or clamping strength. Note: clamping and holding strength also depends on the rivets functional design. Not all large flange painted rivets are designed, and certainly not all made the same way or of the same materials. For more information on blind rivet performance visit aDP Rivet’s hot to use rivet page for reviews and comparisons.
Getting back to “why” use Large headed painted rivets. In addition to providing more surface contact, and better joint strength. The opportunity to use painted, colored large flange painted rivets enhances the appearance of your application.
Where to use large flange painted rivets? Applications can range from fastening soft materials like rubber, fiberglass, plastics to sheet metal or metal frames. When ever the softer material is the finished, or exposed material, the large flange painted rivets can provide more surface contact and better hold for the softer material to the stronger back side material. Applications with surface movement, (often called metal working), which occurs when fastening multiple sheets of materials, sheet metals, aluminum sheets, fiberglass sheets. Typically, the sheets are also fastened to a more rigid frame on the back side, however the sheets are the finished side and application will flex, or move when is use. Vehicles are one common application where sheets are fastened to a rigid back side frame. Think of race cars, which have a rigid tubular or channel type steel frame. Aluminum, steel, composites and fiberglass sheets are often used to cover the frame and allow for a finished appearance. Naturally, when a race car does it’s thing, there’s plenty of metal movement, flexing and sometimes rubbing against other race cars. Snowmobiles, sleds, mobile homes, trailers and on and on all have similar construction features, which often has sheet materials riveted over the structural frame. Large flange painted rivets are a quick, and method of fastening these vehicles.
When using large flange painted rivets, the spacing (distance between rivets) can be about 50% more than when using smaller headed rivets. You can end up using fewer rivets, however, many people who use the larger head rivets also consider them visually appealing and use more. They also give the added strength feature a boost by using more rivets.
When considering other rivet suppliers, importers or manufacturers, will publish the need for accurate application hole sizes. Some even write articles for industry magazines with elaborate descriptions of why rivets fail. They go to great lengths attempting to dismiss their inferior, old technology rivets by casting blame on you, the end user. They do this because their rivets most likely are faulty an will not work right if they are put into applications where the hole size is the thickness of a human hair too big. Yes, the blueprint specifications do spell out accurate hole sizes with little if any tolerance. In fact, for a conventional 3/16″ pop type rivet the application hole size specification is 0.192 to 0.196 inches. That’s a total of 0.004 thousands of an inch which is about the size of a single human hair. Imagine buying rivets from someone other than aDP Rivet and you ask them why their best rivets pull through and leave you with a sharp nail sticking out. Then they tell you your application hole size must be a little too big, over-sized, and they won’t refund your money. Now tell me how many of you have drilled a hole perfectly, without any wandering of the while you’re drilling the hole. I’d say very few humans drill perfect holes and more often the result is a slightly oval or over-sized hole. You’ll have none of these problems when using aDP Rivet five star performance large flange painted rivets. In fact, aDP Rivet stocks a huge selection of five star performance large flange painted rivets that will fill oblong holes and they even provide demonstrations of how well their rivets perform in 1/8″ over-sized holes. You can bet there’s too many to count human hairs in an 1/8″, (0.125), and their ultimate multigrip rivets work perfectly. This is one of the few, if only rivet manufacturers you’ll come across who guarantees their ultimate multigrip five star performance large flange painted rivets will never leave an exposed nail sticking out. Just take a look at their thousands of five star customer approval comments via their customer feedback page. With painted blind rivets commonly purchased and used we’re sure you’ll find plenty of 100% customer approvals on their site. Painted blind rivets are especially pleasing when considering how well they blend into the application appearance.
Beware of “me too” rivets which cheat on not only the size of the Larger flange by making it smaller than the specification. Often, cheap “me too” rivets have smaller diameter and thinner heads, which combined add up to a weaker, failure prone rivet. There is a reason most “me too” cheap rivets are less expensive, and it may not just be because they were made in China. Buyer beware! Don’t risk your application to premature and/or weaker construction due to cheating “me too” type rivets.
Buy American made Large flange painted rivets from a reliable supplier. There is one manufacturer of large flange painted rivets has separated itself from pack of “me too” suppliers. That is aDP Rivet and not just because of this text. It’s because over three thousand customers have logged positive review comments to the extent aDP Rivet has earned a 100% customer approval rating. Visit their online store and read the customer reviews. Don’t be mislead by suppliers who give excuses why their rivets don’t work. Buying large flange painted rivets should be an easy process and the rivets should work every time regardless of your slightly over-sized hole.
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