A little concentration would help, but it was impossible to concentrate with a head that felt like a boxful of loose rivets.

Check the frame parts for loose rivets, screws or missing bolts.

However, it crashed on 1 July 1929 due to several loose rivets and integrity flaws, and no further production went ahead.

So we walked around the Cessna, counting wings, kicking the tires and looking for loose rivets.

Yet Taylor was on the very short list of men who can make atom bombs, and he certainly seemed to have a loose rivet or two.

Miles bent and picked up a loose rivet, one of hundreds, now cooled.

His father twiddled a loose rivet on his helmet, a sure sign that he was worried.

As a result cracks and loose rivets began to appear on the upper deck.

To remove a loose rivet, saw the head off with a hacksaw.

You kicked a loose rivet at every second step in that station-yard on the hillside.