[TR] vin tags

[Dave1massey at cs.com]

In a message dated 4/26/2009 7:38:42 PM Central Daylight Time, 
ahwahnee18 at gmail.com writes: 
> I just used pop rivets of a similar size.  Only slight difference I 
> noticed
> was that the center of the new rivet is a hole whereas the original 
> appeared
> to have something in that hole.  I could have probably duplicated that
> look but really didn't think it important.
> 
> 
There are pop rivets and there are pop rivets.  I doubt the factory used 
anything terribly exotic here but they probably used what is sometimes called 
a closed end rivet.  This rivet doesn't leave a hole but is solid.  This may 
have been an attempt to provide fewer entry points for water.

http://www.hansonrivet.com/w22.htm

Dave