greetings,
Im new to the whole aluminum thing, what kind of riveting tool would you recommend for the brackets? Im assuming I gotta drill holes through the brackets and motherboard THEN rivet?
I used this one on my motherboard, works great and I’ve used it to rivet other things with no issues. And you are correct, drill the bracket and mobo and then align them and put the rivet. Then you use the puller to pull the rivet right and the stem will snap off in the gun, it’s super simple!
BOSI Professional Pop Rivet Gun… Amazon.com
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Here’s what I learned…
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Make sure you place the brackets far enough from the edge of the MB.
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Mark your bracket placement on the MB
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Drill out your brackets separately and THEN drill the MB, don’t try and do both at once.
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Practice riveting so that you get a feel for the tool.
If you check out my current build thread [Spiderfan2k3: First Pack Build (aka Gladys) with pics - Proton Packs - GBFans.com], you’ll see I did NONE of that and paid the price (literally and figuratively).
I wouldn’t worry too much about the extra holes, I watched the first movie in 4k recently and you can see the “mistakes” they made trying to mount it too lol.