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aluminum rivets

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skittish

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Vancouver Island
I have a few thousand 17-T4 alum rivets and would like to know if anyone has experience on how to normalize the rivets to use with 5052 al in non aircraft use. they are extremely hard and even heated retain their hardness. Is there any way of using them , or softening them?
 
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