Just a question on pop rivets. I too use these fasteners for various things, but I've never used stainless steel. I've seen stainless steel rivets installed using an air-powered rivet gun, but never by hand. Is it possible to install stainless steel using my fairly inexpensive hand tool? Also, I've switched almost entirely to mounting fixtures on mast and boom by tapping and using machine screws. Any reason the bail can't be mounted up using this method? I say this because in monitoring Brian Toss's website, there seems to be overwhelming agreement that the tapped and machine screwed method is superior to rivets. T Tom Smith & Jane Van Winkle Sandpoint, Idaho M15-345, Chukar -----Original Message----- From: Joe Kidd [mailto:jk@yosemite.net] Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 9:33 PM To: montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com Subject: Re: M_Boats: Boom Bale, Genoa Cover Maybe the item number is 0BBA... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Kidd" <jk@yosemite.net> To: <montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 9:16 PM Subject: Re: M_Boats: Boom Bale, Genoa Cover

harborfreight.com sells a blind rivet (pop rivet) gun with four different sized nose pieces for different sized rivets for $6.99. Item #07356-OBBA. It is almost identical to the pop rivet gun I have used for many years. It isn't industrial grade, but it is more than serviceable

for

the occasional home (or boat) handyman... and it is cheap!

Joe Kidd M15 #207 "Poco A Poco"

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