Grill welting installation

I'm restoring my second 46 CJ2a and recently purchased a welting kit for the grill.  I also bought the rivet crimping tool as well.  Problem is the tool is completely useless because the rivets supplied with the kit is wrong! First, they are made of steel and should be copper.  Second, they are a smaller diameter than original and are shorter.  Therefor, it is impossible to get the proper crimp!  I had save the original rivets and had to use them on the ends of the welt where the metal is thicker, these were the only rivets that the tool worked as advertised.  Unfortunately,  I didn't have enough salvagable copper rivets to do the rest of the job and had to use the crummy steel ones using standard channel locks. Tired of repop crap!! If you are going to make it, make it RIGHT!!! Greg

I used stainless steel welding wire, 1.6mm to bend up some nice "staples", worked good, managed to recycle the original holes and won't rust.....that was on the fuel tank strap.