Homebrew PCBs

I use rivets made by Bungard and I buy them from Watterott:
http://www.watterott.com/en/Bungard
the price for 0.8mm (1000 pieces) is 19.04 Euros (20% VAT included)

http://www.watterott.com/index.php?page=product&info=417

They are rather precise.

Unfortunately shipping to NZ (via DHL) is rather expensive: 50 Euros

_     Elio.


--- In Homebrew_PCBs@yahoogroups.com, James <bitsyboffin@...> wrote:
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> Hi all, I would like to use some via rivets, thing is, I want to use 
> them in a 0.8mm drill hole.
> 
> I purchased a few (from a Taobao seller) which were advertised as 0.8mm, 
> but they turn out to be closer to 0.9mm outer diameter and are not going 
> to fit (I tried, I did get one to jam in, just, but it wasn't easy!), 
> I'd really rather stick with 0.8mm holes.
> 
> Search hard as I can, high, and low, ebay, taobao, alibaba.... I just 
> can not find anything smaller than 0.8mm, apart from... this old thread:
> http://tech.dir.groups.yahoo.com/group/Homebrew_PCBs/message/24987
> where indeed megauk sells rivets suitable for that drill size. 
> Unfortunately, megauk wants to charge me 30 pounds to post them to me, 
> 30 pounds shipping, for a bag of rivets which probably weigh less than 
> 10 grams
> 
> So, does anybody know of any other sources for rivets which will fit in 
> a 0.8mm hole?
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