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profl
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How to I install the rivets in the ATA case I'm building so that they dimple the aluminum angle?
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I use an air staple gun without staples to dimple the aluminum angle in place on the inside. Then I use pop rivets for everything else.
Sometimes it seems there are more than one of me.

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Raywitko, thanks for your response. Isn't the use of pop rivets contrary to ATA 300 Cat 1 regs?
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Having not read the regs. couldn't really tell you. I've seen a lot of them made with pop rivets.
Sometimes it seems there are more than one of me.

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To withstand 100 shipments the ATA regs call for steel split rivets driven with such force to dimple the aluminum angle. I do not recall what the lower requirements are for cases designed to only withstand 10 shipments. Maybe pop rivets?