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PostPosted: Fri Nov 04, 2011 9:20 pm 
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Im looking for the rivits that hold the spade teminals on clubby switches as i have a bag of 2 terminal switches like the spray switch and would like to make some wiper and light switches out of them

I tried jaycar today no luck


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Location: Sydney - strangely, I am glad of the sight of hills!!
you can probably get away with aluminium rivets if you can't find anything else. it is a good conductor. just make sure to take off any anodising in the contact areas with some very fine emery cloth/paper (your wife/girlfriends nail boards are good :wink:)

but there are plenty online suppliers

http://www.hobbymechanics.com.au/products/Copper-Round-Head-Rivets.html

http://www.ausriveting.com.au/catalogue/Catalogues2011_Rivets.pdf

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Seen the first link last night second link is mostly pop rivets

Im looking for a shop in sydney as i dont have a credit card


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