This is usually done in concert with the replacement of hot rivets with bolts.
The metal girders expanded too; pressed against the ceiling, writhing in the heat, they fired hot rivets across the room like bullets.
This is due to the fact that a hot rivet cannot be properly heat treated to add strength and hardness.
This type of bolt is commonly used to replace hot peened rivets during the seismic retrofit of structures.
The lacing elements are typically attached using either hot rivets or threaded locator bolts.
Like someone was shooting hot rivets into my joints.
He had half expected her to show him the marks that she suspected the hot rivets had put on her rump.
Welding torches flared in brilliant points of light while hot rivets hurled their flat trajectories across the sky into the waiting buckets.
The pneumatic rivet gun was originally developed to set hot rivets on girder bridges and high steel buildings.
And hot rivets and hard vacuum.