Patent ID: 8707539

Claim:
A method for setting gun rivets, wherein: before inserting a tie bolt into a recess, a gun rivet without threads and having a collar and a non-self-drilling rivet tip is shot into a component using a first tool that applies force to the collar and not to the tie bolt until an underside of the collar strikes an upper surface of the component, a tie bolt is then inserted into a recess in the gun rivet using a second tool until it abuts against a base of the gun rivet, next, the tie bolt is joined to the gun rivet, and is further joined to the base of the recess, next, the tie bolt is drawn upon using the second tool in order to deform the rivet, and lastly, the tie bolt is separated from the gun rivet once a forward section of the gun rivet has been expanded by the tie bolt being drawn using the second tool.