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pop rivet en · NOUN

Etymology

Genericised from POP, the brand name of the original manufacturer, now owned by Stanley Engineered Fastening, a division of Stanley Black & Decker

Meanings

1. A blind rivet; a rivet which can be fixed with access only to the factory head end; after passing the bucktail through the items to be secured, the rivet gun is attached to a frangible mandrel through the centre of the rivet, which upsets the bucktail to form the field head and breaks off when the correct pressure has been achieved.

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Translations (4)

fi popniitti (a pin with an expandable head) · fi vetoniitti (a pin with an expandable head) · sv popnit (a pin with an expandable head) · pl nit zrywalny (a pin with an expandable head)