I've had these for 30+ years, just hanging around in the bottom drawer of a old, narrow set of drawers I brought home from a dead relative's shop. The whole batch weighs just over 1/2 lb. I'm guessing aluminum. They were found in a drawer with curved bottomed sections. The drawers must have been modified. Only 2 of the 8 have the curves and it looks like they had straight dividers at some time. I wonder why those curved bottoms were added.

Yes,they are aluminum rivets, They have likely hardened too much to use them without annealing. The curved bottoms in the drawers are to make it easier to remove the rivets from the drawer because they cannot "hide in the corners"

What Are They - Rivets?

Feb 25, 2019 21 Replies

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Spalted Walt 7 years ago

Back in the day, Center Line wheels used aluminum rivets. I had a set that looked a lot like this:

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Clare Snyder 7 years ago

Heck, all kinds of aluminum items were rivetted as many allots are not weldable and need to be joined. Boats are rivetted too. Lots of structural aluminum is rivetted

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