pop riveting good or bad?

[sledgehammer]

Pop riveting metal trunking looks great but what about continuity and fault current capacity?

 

[snowhead]

Never seen it done
Wouldn't dream of doing it.

 

[Thefailsafe2012]

Pop riveting metal trunking looks great but what about continuity and fault current capacity?

Dont think the rivets can be relied upon to handle much of a fault current, so the correct bonds/joiners should be used.

 

[Darkwood]

Like any standard manufactured joint you fit a bonding strap if required for earth continuity like when relying on the trunking as a sole means of earth for a circuit.

 

[sledgehammer]

Saw it the other day. I've always bolted with continuity links but it did look tidy. I think fault current would possibly blow the rivets and that in time continuity would become a issue. Anyone feel that if they were doing a EICR they'd fail it?

 

[GLENNSPARK]

Yet again we hear speculation & conjecture in here...
Does anyone actually read what others gave put...
Do what Darkwood has said...which is to fit a strap across the 2 joining sections.....
Oh, and before anyone starts on about pop rivets being weak....then you just try seperating a pop rivetted joint by hand...
furthermore, pop rivets have no sharp edges inside...

 

[telectrix]

furthermore, pop rivets have no sharp edges inside...

neither does duct tape. :24:

 

[Resu]

When we did trunking in college we only used pop rivets and there was no mention of bonding strips, etc.

 

[Rockingit]

I would have thought that fault current wouldn't really be too much of an issue as it's the trunking itself that would carry, not the rivet? I mean, there's always some overlap.

 

[elliot123]

Same in college used pop Rivets for trunking and roofing bolts and nuts for tray