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Aluminum fencing question
Posted on 8/31/25 at 9:10 pm
Posted on 8/31/25 at 9:10 pm
Storm tore my fencing up two weeks ago. Many of the vertical slates are detached from the horizontal brace. I can’t figure out what type of “rivet” was holding them together. It has a smooth head, aluminum, 3/4 of an inch long, and no screw threads, just smooth aluminum. At first I assumed it was a rivet, but now idk.
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Posted on 8/31/25 at 10:59 pm to jeffsdad
Pop rivets
Posted on 8/31/25 at 11:54 pm to jeffsdad
Sounds like that is some kind of rivet installed with a press. I would just use pop rivets.
Posted on 9/1/25 at 6:30 am to Spankum
That makes sense. I could pop rivet each side individually. It would take a rivet over 3/4 of an inch to do one, and they are hard to find and uncertain if they will work in my rivet gun.
Posted on 9/1/25 at 8:42 pm to jeffsdad
Another option might be to get it welded. I used to know a dude who could weld aluminum coke cans together!
ETA: another option would be to just drill it all the way through and put a small bolt through.
ETA: another option would be to just drill it all the way through and put a small bolt through.
This post was edited on 9/1/25 at 8:44 pm
Posted on 9/2/25 at 9:16 pm to Spankum
Did the small bolt thing. Worked great. Thank you and all the others that answered.
Posted on 9/3/25 at 8:54 am to jeffsdad
Glad it worked out….in retrospect that seemed to be the simplest option!
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