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Old 10-08-2017, 04:04 PM
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...Silly question, when did smooth flat head countersunk rivets come into use?

Bob Neill
Late 1920s I think. Jiro Horikoshi, designer of the A5M and A6M fighters, said in his biography that he saw flush riveting in the Junkers factory when he visited in the early 1930s.

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