hollow rivet

A single eyelet reinforces the spoke hole much like a hollow rivet.

The part, a type of hollow rivet, has also probably been used in other aircraft in places where it might fail, officials said.

The axis, or pivot point, must be such that a star can be sighted through it; usually a hollow rivet is used.

The principle component parts are made of transparent amber coloured Perspex, pivoted with hollow rivets.

The ventilator holes were retained, but were set in smaller hollow rivets mounted to the helmet's shell.

I thought them beautiful as he placed them on me, using the tiny hollow rivets that a woman wears in her nipples for her "clips".

One safety board member said that the Federal Aviation Administration may eventually need to require that aircraft brought in for maintenance be inspected for hollow rivets installed in inappropriate places.

"This problem is probably more widespread than we can imagine," said the board member, John Goglia, a former aircraft mechanic who said he himself had installed many such hollow rivets as substitutes for solid ones.

The "Super A" bindings on the Stowe snowshoes resemble those on the Sherpas, but they have a flaw in that the 'D' ring eyelets on them are inadequately fastened to the neoprene with hollow rivets.

These types of blind rivets have non-locking mandrels and are sometimes avoided for critical structural joints because the mandrels may fall out, due to vibration or other reasons, leaving a hollow rivet that has a lower load-carrying capability than solid rivets.