Except what I changed and added Eldor -----Original Message----- From: jerry montgomery <jerry@jerrymontgomery.org> To: For and about Montgomery Sailboats <montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Thu, Apr 5, 2012 1:57 am Subject: Re: M_Boats: Pop rivets? That's one of my masts, Eldor, and all the riveted stuff is held on with tainless! Another thing, most of your sailing is done on fresh water. jerry ---- Original Message ----- rom: <eisenee@aol.com> o: <montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> ent: Wednesday, April 04, 2012 6:25 PM ubject: Re: M_Boats: Pop rivets? I have been using aluminum pop rivits on all my boats for the last 40 years nd don't remember one ever failing. And if something is going to fail I ould rather have the rivit break then to have a large hole torn into the oom or mast. Eldor 17 Motu iti -----Original Message----- rom: douglas kelch <doug1kelch@gmail.com> o: Montgomery <montgomery_boats@mailman.xmission.com> ent: Wed, Apr 4, 2012 1:04 pm ubject: M_Boats: Pop rivets? am curious about Tom's comment on stainless pop rivets. used to use stainless self taping screws. Over 10 years of use, often in ltwater, they fused to the boom and were not easily removable and the sulting larger hole was not useable. switched to aluminum pop rivets as thier strength seems to be well in cess of the need on small boats like ours. here does not seem to be any need or advantage to stainless pop rivets. m I wrong here? hanks oug Kelch 5 G" #310 eas the Day" -- am using the free version of SPAMfighter. e are a community of 7 million users fighting spam. PAMfighter has removed 6339 of my spam emails to date. et the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message