Haha, I love your write-up. Excellent job, the IS looks great.

For the rivets, you can still use the manual rivet guns you find at home improvement stores, you just can't use any of the metal tips they provide because they are too small. Just unscrew the tip, it works just fine without it.

A little late for you, but for anyone else that is going to do this.

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