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ABA44 small & large aluminum rivets made in USA
ABA44L aluminum rivets are made within our expansive manufacturing facility here in the USA. ABA44L Silver are 1/8″ Diameter rivets with LARGE (3/8″) head size All-Aluminum open end blind rivets. Rivet body is formed from aluminum alloy wire within our manufacturing facility. The rivet body is process and tested before it’s assembled with it’s mating aluminum nail to assure the optimum fit and functional properties. These ABA44L aluminum rivets are part of our open end blind rivets product family. Silver is offered as the color of mill finish aluminum. The ABA44L aluminum rivets body is cold headed (formed) from solid aircraft grade high alloy aluminum wire, not some mystery stuff from China with lead paint. We utilize high alloy aluminum with lot tracking throughout the manufacturing process of our ABA44L aluminum rivets and offer material certification and manufacturers certificate of conformance. Our quality is superb and we offer thousands of customer feedback comments which exhibit our 5 Star performance. Our customer approval rating has been 100% for many years. Customers utilize our products to fasten a countless assortment of projects, from commercial and home appliances to motor homes and camping trailers.
Our ABA44L aluminum rivets, often referred to as pop or open end blind rivets are designed to be used in the following application conditions: 1) Hole Size: #30 drill size for 0.129 to 0.133 hole diameter 2)Grip range 1/8″ to 1/4″) = 0.125″ to 0.250″ for a #44 size. The “Grip range” is the total thickness of the application materials to be fastened by the rivet. Our ABA44L Silver rivets will perform best when used in the above conditions.
If your application conditions are not exactly as above, don’t worry too much as our rivets are designed to allow for slightly less than optimum application conditions. We also can provide our Ultimate Multi-Grip family of rivets, which have additional features to allow applications to vary well beyond the above suggestions and still perform. Over-sized hole is no problem, Grip range varies below the recommended minimum is also not a problem for our Ultimate Multi-Grip rivets. Use our search feature for item ABS4246Lurr Silver and you’ll find one of our easiest to use, application criteria forgiving, and tightest clamping rivets. Our family of Ultimate Multi-Grip rivets grip from paper thin up to 3/8″ thickness for this 4246 size.
Galvanic corrosion should always be a concern when designing or riveting applications together. Galvanic corrosion problems should be solved by designing to avoid these problems in the first place. One of the basic solutions is to avoid dissimilar materials or metals being used to fasten or rivet the application together. If you are fastening aluminum sheets or panels to an aluminum frame, then use aluminum rivets to fasten the aluminum sheets to the aluminum frame. By keeping the basic materials the same, all aluminum, at the very least you are avoiding introducing dissimilar metals, which can lead to premature or galvanic corrosion. By using any of our all aluminum rivets, in this case our ABA44L aluminum rivets you can accomplish the goal of all aluminum components. In addition to keeping with the same base metals, by introducing coatings to the components, in this case our ABA44L Silver large flange aluminum rivets can be finished with a durable epoxy based painted finish. You are enhancing the resistance to galvanic corrosion due to the paint acting as an insulator between what ever it’s fastening. If you aluminum panels or sheets are also coated with a non-metallic paint it can act as an additional insulator layer.
