: The rivits should be all stainless and requires usually a hydrallic rivit
: puller to set them (assuming pop-rivits). Also setting them properly will
: usually crush most woods used in kayaks, works ok with fiberglass that has
: a fairly high compression strength. The reason it's used on commercial
: kayaks is it's a fast way, though not the best way, to attach hardware.

: Bill H.

Yes, wondered about the compression, thought I should try on scrape first. Also just found this while searching on the net - and it's locally available in NZ.

Bohdan