Hi welcome to Chris's tips and tricks
and things, a show where I share with you
things I've discovered to make life a
little bit better. Today it's all about
the rivets. But not just any old rivets.
Rivets that pivot.
You're going to need
some EVA foam at least five millimeters
thick and relatively dense. A pair of
scissors, a glue gun, a three millimeter
hole punch, some quarter-inch vinyl
tubing and something with a rounded end
like a pen or a drum stick. Start by
punching holes in your foam then heat
up the end of the vinyl tubing with the
tip of your glue gun.
Please note we're not using any glue
here we're just using the hotness. Press
your tubing down against a flat surface,
flaring it outwards. This can take a bit
of practice to get right because as we
all know vinyl tubing has a bit of a
mind of its own. Hold it there until it's
cooled and you've got one end of your
rivet.
Now you can feed the tube through the pieces of foam.
Cut the tube off with
your scissors leaving only a tiny amount
sticking up from the foam. Back to the
glue gun to heat up the other end of the
tubing. Now pull out your round ended
item and use it to flare the other end
of the tubing. And that's all you need to
do to make a rivet that pivots.
Quick, simple and ridiculously cheap. And that's
nice.
