This is going to sound odd, I think. I am trying to find the English name for something. I’d appreciate some help, but it will be a bit of a rambling post.
Well, when I was a small kid, many decades ago in Italy, my parents got me one of those little boxes with some kind of arts and crafts supplies to do your own little things - sparkly stuff, card, a tiny scissors, you know the type - and then one of the things I am trying the name of.
It was basically a small bifurcated rivet, but the shaft of the thing was made of a metal so soft I could bend it with my little kiddy fingers. You would use it when making stuff out of cardboard; you poke a hole in two sheets, stick the rivet through both, bend open the bifurcated ends and the two pieces could rotate! Imagine if you were to make, say, a robot’s arm; with one of those at the shoulder you could have an arm that could move back and forth. Magic!
And then I misplaced the thing, but that’s another story. Now I promised to build a robot for my daughter, and I want to make a really nice one, like a good nerdy daddy, with moving arms, a rotating head and a secret compartment for candy and stuff.
To do that I was thinking of using that kind of soft bifurcated rivets I remembered, but for the life of me I cannot find any of them, and attempts to search them on Google haven’t turned up anything yet.
So, if anyone knows what I’m talking about, do they have a special name or a brand? How can I find them in the UK?
As an alternative, can you suggest an alternative… thingy, I suppose… I can use?
