The glues and rivets being used vary between manufacturers and it is important for the repairer to understand these differences.

Alongside self-piercing rivets and blind rivets, another option for joining several layers of thin material together is flow form rivets or solid self-piercing rivets. However, some smash repair shops are understandably reluctant to invest in a rivet gun necessary to undertake these tasks, arguing that they don’t get enough work to justify the initial outlay. But it is an investment that will be needed sooner or later with the changes in repair processes.

To glue and rivet is a vital repair method and is progressively growing. One day it will be as important to the industry as welding is today.

Do you understand the advances in riveting? With panels getting thinner and thinner the self-piercing rivets (SPR) is being superseded by flow form rivets. These are inserted into the existing SPR holes to avoid weakening the panel with a new hole.

Among the types of rivets now on the market are : solid self-piercing rivet fo ruse when joining several thin panels together.; countersunk flow form rivets, which leave a flat surface that allows the rubber covers to be refitted without trouble; huck magna grip/bom which are used on chassis repairs and are one of the strongest cold joining repair methods available; and rivstuds and rivnuts.

These cold joining methods are example of how this whole repair process is significantly expanding and evolving.

The Automatic Spot Welder!

The new machines, particularly the latest Wielander & Schill GT Spot welder has the following capabilities:

Automatic Welding Parameters

Automatic C-Gun Force Pressure

Automatic Current Control

Automatic Time Control

Automatically Saves Welding Data