Having used a drawing pin for the pivot piont in my mark 1 I need to engineer a scaled up pivot for my Pop-Up. I want to keep the materials i’m using in keeping with so I dont want to use bolts.

Small pieces of dowel seem to fit the bill, the metal washers seen here are to chunky, and require to thick a dowel.
16mm dowel, with metal washer.

 

12mm dowel with lightweight brass rivets

 

The 12mm dowel is a good size for my pivot piont, I have carefullt hammered the rivits onto the end of the dowel.

 

 

The dowel needs to be long enough to hold a cardboard washer on each end and 5 layers of double core card that makes up the base. Making them 25mm long.

Cardboard washer (laser cut) covered in fabric

The pivot

Pivot working in test piece.