Blind rivets

Blind rivet - detail

Highest quality and availability for industry, trade and crafts.

Our production facilities certified in accordance with the automotive industry standards guarantee a consistently high quality with respect to geometric dimensions, mechanical values and function.

With our experience, we specify many features much more closely than required by the DIN standards and optimise details not specified there for reliable processing.

The variety of available standard dimensions and variants is practically unlimited – individual adaptations possible with corresponding order quantities.

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Blind rivets

Standard blind rivet ALFO
Standard blind rivet ALFO®

The description ALFO® specifies several product lines of open type standard blind rivets, available with dome head, countersunk head or large dome head.

Standard blind rivet
Grooved blind rivet ALFO
Grooved blind rivet ALFO®

The ALFO® design with grooved rivet sleeve is perfectly suitable for the blind holes. In this case the grooves claw into the surrounding material of the bore hole.

Grooved blind rivet
Multigrip blind rivet OPTO
Multigrip blind rivets OPTO®

The OPTO® multigrip blind rivet with his especially embossed rivet shaft, is distinctly different to a standard blind rivet.

Multigrip blind rivet
Colored blind rivets (Alfo and Opto)
Painted blind rivets

Painted ALFO-standard blind rivets and OPTO-multigrip blind rivets. Our standards in white (RAL 9010) and black (RAL 9005). Individual colours matched colours matched exactly to the specific application available upon request.

Painted blind rivets
Blind rivet, high strength multigrip OPTO-BULB
High strength multigrip blind rivets OPTO®-BULB

Large grip ranges and higher shear and tensile forces - OPTO®-Bulb is the universal rivet for difficult jobs.

High strength multigrip blind rivet
Sealed blind rivets (often often referred to as closed end rivets)
Sealed blind rivets CERTO®

Due to its closed rivet body the CERTO® sealed blind rivets are experts for liquid tight processing. The rivets characteristic guarentees a captive remaining mandrel and a smooth, burr-free closing head.

Sealed blind rivet
Structural blind rivet FERO-BULB
Structural blind rivets FERO®-BULB

The FERO®-BULB series are used in large quantities in various industrial appliances for a long time. Particularly in the field of vehicle and tank construction, this type of rivet is an excellent choice.

Structural blind rivet FERO®-BULB
Group of structural blind rivets
Structural blind rivets - overview

Structural blind rivets play a key role wherever safety, high shear forces and large clamping strengths are important. HONSEL supplies four different series and can thus cover practically every requirement.

Structural blind rivets
Structural blind rivet FERO-BOLT
Structural blind rivets FERO®-BOLT

FERO®-BOLT high-strength blind rivets are first-class fasteners for industrial applications, especially in those with the attension to the safety factor.

Structural blind rivet FERO®-BOLT
Structural blind rivet FERO-LOCK
Structural blind rivets FERO®-LOCK

With the large clamping ranges of a multigrip blind rivet and secure mechanical locking of the load-bearing breakstem for high shear fracture forces, HONSEL FERO® LOCK blind rivets can be used wherever high strength in combination with splash water-tightness and absolute vibration resistance are demanded.

FERO®-LOCK structural blind rivet
Folding blind rivet
Folding blind rivet

According to the ARCO® body-bound rivet the folding rivet forms a large upset head too. This guarantees an equal distribution of forces, so that especially plastics and other soft or vulnerable materials resist against cracking or pullthrough.

Folding blind rivet
Body bound blind rivet ARCO
Body bound blind rivets ARCO®

During the setting process, edges on the mandrel head cut the rivet shaft into four segments. These four segments then unfold on the component surface thus forming the large locking head.

Body bound blind rivet
Hammer driven blind rivet
Hammerdrive blind rivets

Hammer stroke or drive rivets are set by driving the mandrel into the rivet body (e.g. by means of a hammer). This causes the lower end of the rivet body to expand.

Hammerdrive blind rivet
Blind rivet Alfo Flex
ALFO®-FLEX

ALFO FLEX blind rivets have been specially optimised to prevent the often faulty riveting in very soft materials or with slightly too large drill hole diameters.

ALFO FLEX
Monel blind rivet
Monel blind rivets

Nickel-copper alloy is a material offering the best possible strength and corrosion resistance properties. Outstanding resistance to salts and acids.

ALFO FLEX
Grounding rivets. Blind rivets with earth tags.
Grounding blind rivets

Grounding blind rivets offer a simple and reliable way of grounding a product. This is achieved by pressing the respective toothing on the conductor in the material.

Grounding blind rivet
Floor rivets for vehicles
Floor rivets

The joining of wooden or plastic floorboards to a metal substructure takes place in all areas of commercial vehicle production, from trailer building through to the production of omnibuses.

Floor rivets
Blind rivets customized for your needs
Customized blind rivets

Besides our extensive standard catalogue range, we create individual custom made products.

Customized blind rivets
Blind rivets pictogram
Blind rivets with national technical approval

General national technical approvals are required for many types of construction and construction products where no defined rules and standards exist, or where extreme deviations from these exist.

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How does a blind rivet work?

Technical drawing of a blind rivet.

The two-piece blind rivet consists of a rivet body mounted on a mandrel.

The rivet is set from one side of the parts to be joined. After inserting the rivet into the part, the mandrel is pulled back by the tool, deforming the rivet sleeve and forming the
closing head.

The mandrel shears at a specially predetermined breaking point.

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Processing blind rivets

Special tools are needed for processing blind rivets. These tools have to be chosen on the basis of the rivet type, the field of application and the processing volume.

Manual tools for processing blind rivets. As example Honsel BZ 44Manual rivet tools
compressed air rivet guns. As an example the Honsel BZ 123APneumatic tools
Battery powered setting tools for blind rivets. Example: Honsel Rivdom eBZ ZERO.Battery riveters

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