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Rivet shear / tensile test

While sanding the excess resin with micro from the rivet heads you have to be careful to not remove any aluminium from the rivet.
Removing just a tiny bit is done easily, I measured on a test rivet about 0.1/0.2 mm.
This doesn’t seem to be much but will it impact the strength of the rivet?
For educational purposes I did some shear and tensile tests with the 3.2 and 4.0 mm rivets.
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