A brief video showing the methods of measuring and fitting a DZUS Fastener. Find many different styles and lengths on our website www.carbuildersolutions.com
A great video. My 1973 Detomaso Pantera has these fasteners for a fiberglass trunk that covers the engine compartment. Some are missing but now I can replace them.
Glad I watched this. Too much drilling, riveting and fitting for my application , back to recessed rivet nuts for me ( One hole you're done ) :) Very well presented. Thank you.
Excellent video, well thought out, and a fine teacher, too! What is obvious to me, but unsaid, is practice, practice on the panel materials you'll be using with scrap, just as he did.
12 .24. I put the center punch in my drill press and spin the rivet head over.Even neater than your way and less chance of star cracks in the gel coat on the face of the panel.Keep up the good work.
I found great value in the part on getting the back of the pop rivet to be flush. I suggest that you either make another vid with that as the main topic, or cut and edit the existing part and make a separate vid that communicates the idea in the vid title. This point is valuable in many circumstances where people use pop rivets. Thanks.
I'm looking to use these to fit my GRP bonnet to the GRP body, bonnet has an upstand (or downstand which ever way you look at it) making the depth thick, circa 15mm and means there is a void. Questions, can I get fasteners this long, do an need to fill void to avoid flexing?
This is good and well, however, how do you do a Dzus when the sheet metal is only .060" or .040" thick? You can't countersink it. I just grind them down a little, so the point sticks out about .060" and call it good. There is no way to get it flush at this point. If there is something you know that I don't, let me know. Thank you for your time. GJ.
Very helpful thank you. NOTE: be careful wearing gloves while using rotating tools like the drill - they can get caught and pull your hand into the machine
These are made in the UK, I'm the Manufacturing Engineer at Southco Worcester responsible for the machines that manufacture the bolts in these fasteners. The imperial measurements are due to the fact that they are designed in the US, particularly the D4 range, others ranges are metric.
@@jamesford3549 Hi James... Did you get my previous reply? I can find out for you. But you'll need a part number? There are lots of head styles and options available in D3 and D4 ranges. Download the Southco D3 and D4 PDF where you can see the technical details.
There are two types of country's, One uses the metric system and the other landed on the moon. Trying to educate myself on Dzus fastners and loved your video until you said the bad word! Milliliters! Ug!
There are actually four types of country: those that use Imperial (a lot of the world), those that use Metric (a lot of the world), those that use both (just the UK officially), and those that use neither (a minority of countries which includes the US which has its own unique measurement system based on the system Britain used BEFORE they brought in Imperial).
