Thankyou Wayne and the thickness is 16G. I wasn't going to put any pics up tonight as I haven't done a lot but I just thought I'd share one way of riveting 2 pieces of material together without buying premade rivets which can be expensive for what they are and the hassle of getting the correct dia and length. I have used a piece of mild steel rod, in this case it is 1/4" cut at the width of material plus about the dia. I drilled the appropriate hole dia and in this case I used my hole punch as a press but you can easily use a standard old garage press. I normally have a shallow hole underneath so when you press the top you can turn it over and have a bit of meat left to flatten that down as well and it works a treat. You could use any old weld mesh, Racking mesh old bolts or even heavy fencing wire for small jobs and flatten with a hammer.
Anyway for what it was worth it was my 2 bobs worth.
Colin.
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04-01-16, 09:24
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