Huck Rivets Magna-Lok

Australia's #1 Huck rivet - MagnaLok rivet.  

Huck rivet Magna-Lok is an adaptable fastener that is ideal for multiple material depths. A fast & easy to use heavy duty rivet with an internal locking system for vibration & moisture resistance. Check out the structural rivet blog.  Or seeking more info about the Huck rivet range? Go to the blog; Huck rivets & the 5 types. 

Huck Rivet Magna-Lok FAQ

What are Huck Rivet Magnalok?

Huck rivet Magna Lok® is Australia’s favourite structural rivet due to flexibility with material depth. Magna-Lok rivet is a high performing high strength rivet with extended material grip range, along with Huck's unique 360 degrees internal locking mechanism ensuring great resistance to vibration and moisture without damaging the surface. A high performing structural blind rivet that will reduce inventory, cost, and labour.

Why use a Huck Rivet?

In challenging applications where vibration is an issue you will need a Huck® fasteners to provide a strong, reliable vibration-resistant solution. Huck® rivets are ideal in this application as they lower production costs with reduced assembly times that compare favourably to welding or a bolt and nut combo. So in critical load bearing applications with proven results your first choice should always be Huck® structural rivets.

Where are Huck rivets used?

Huck Rivets are great in heavy duty industrial applications where a strong secure vibration resistant solution is required for the fabrication of utility vehicles, Utes, trucks, trains, truck trailers, and so much more. Including popular brands you know and trust uch as Kenworth® trucks, Boeing®, Tesla®, and the Bushranger® defence vehicles. Magna-Lok® is the great all-rounder in the structural rivet category due to its versatility with material depth. This means one rivet can be very flexible with materials of varying depths. Huck rivets have been engineered to be a fast and easy fastener to install with an internal locking system that mechanically locks the pin into the sleeve, whilst embracing the material at the same time. 

How do Huck rivets work?

Huck®  structural rivets work differently to general rivets, as there is an internal  mechanism that locks a portion of the pin (mandrel) inside the rivet's body. This creates an additional layer of material that assists in increasing the rivet's strength. 

How do you install a Huck rivet?

Installation of a structural rivet is similar to the standard rivet, the difference being the tool, as a structural rivet requires a Huck gun or a structural rivet gun, this is due to a standard rivet gun not having the correct jaws to install structural rivets on a continual basis.

Installing a structural rivet; predrilling is required. Load rivet’s pin tail section into rivet gun. Insert rivets body into hole and activate gun. Upon activation the head of the rivet is pushed against the nose of the tool, whilst the tool pulls up the central pin. As a result, the body compresses, and expands on the blind side until it maxes out to approximately one and a half times the size of the original diameter. Resulting in a larger surface in which the two materials are effectively fastened together.

What's the difference between a Huck bolt and a Huck rivet?  

Essentially a Huck Bolt and a Huck rivet are both fasteners that are used to join two or more materials together. A Huck bolt is a two-piece fastener whilst a Huck rivet is a one-piece fastener. 

A Huck bolt is a two-part pin & collar assembly that becomes a single entity through a mechanical process. This occurs when a tool applies pressure to the collar and forces it into the grooves of the Huck bolt pin. See how Huck Bolts work here. 

A Huck rivet is a single fastener that is installed with a Huck tool or a special rivet gun. A structural rivet is composed of two components, a metal tube (body) & pin (mandrel). The pin is normally longer than the tube and designed to be pulled up through the tube whilst enlarging it in the process. This results in the rivet clamping the material. See how Huck structural rivets work here.

What's the difference between Monobolt® & Magna-Lok® rivets?

These are popular brands of structural rivets that have many physical similarities, however their strength is a key difference. Magna-Lok® rivet is a much stronger rivet, in lab results the MagnaLok® outlasted the Monobolt® 20 to 1. Another key  difference is Magna-Lok does not require a special nose tip to be installed correctly, unlike the Monobolt® which requires a special nose tip. Huck’s locking mechanism has been engineered into the rivet to eliminate tooling and operator error (subject to using the correct installation gun).  Read more about these  differences.