Vern Mesler is a retired metal fabricator from Michigan, who now teaches welding at Lansing Community College. He also has a passion for saving old riveted bridges. "An engineer, they wrote books, ...

Although magnesium is known for being lightweight, riveting pieces of it together can be an involved, energy-intensive process. A new technique is claimed to make doing so much simpler, possibly ...

Guys who work with sheet metal love “pop” rivets because they quickly and easily fasten together pieces of sheet metal. Because much of my rivet work is with heavier metal or thicker plastic, my ...