Rivets & Panel Fasteners
- Ultra fast application time
- Suitable for sealed & awkward fastening environments
About Rivets & Panel Fasteners
Snap Rivets are part of a wider range of plastic and nylon rivets. Snap Rivets are generally made from Nylon 6. Snap Rivets are also manufactured in nylon 66. Snap Rivets are generally manufactured in black or white but can be in any colour. Specialist materials such as flame retardent nylon can also be used in the manufacture of Snap Rivets, this gives the snap rivet a greater resistance to heat and flame.
Snap Rivets, nylon rivets and plastic rivets provide a method of fastening two or more panels or thicknesses together. The advantage of a snap rivet compared to a conventional fastener is that not only is it cheap to produce but that the snap rivet is applicable by a single directional force from one side of the panels to be joined. This gives the snap rivet a huge advantage where fastening access is difficult or not possible. Although the snap rivet is generally known as the most effective, both in cost and technique; there are many others including drive rivets, push rivets, ratchet rivets. Although the term "snap rivet" denotes a typical two part product. There are single part rivets that do a similar job. These rely on a rivet that has a shank of different widths where the widest part of the rivet shank can be crushed upon insertion and then the shank of the rivet reforms after passage through the panels to provide grip.
A snap rivet is comprised of two parts. The snap rivet is assembled after manufacture so both pieces of the snap rivet are joined but not totally fastened; ready for use. The snap rivet's drive portion and snap rivet's receptive portion. The male part of the snap rivet comprises of a head and a shank. The recipient part of the snap rivet comprises of a single unit, a deformable tube that has cross diagonal slits across the tube of the recipient part of the snap rivet. As the male part of the snap rivet is inserted into the recipient part, the shank pushes against the deformable tube and causes the legs of the recipient part of the snap rivet to deflect outwards causing grip. Thus the extraction of the shank from the recipient part of the snap rivet is opposed by a retention force caused by the Snap Rivets reaction to the recipient part of the snap rivet. Snap Rivets are found in the manufacture of many different products from computer and PCB architecture through to automotive and many other electrical product components.