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I have thousands of aircraft rivets in all sorts of sizes.

FWIW...

McMaster Carr c'sink rivets are probably only offered in 78 degree aluminum.
Where as AN426 "countersunk" rivets have a 100 degree head angle.

AN470 "domed" head rivets have a head diameter that is 2x the shank diameter (with dome height about half the shank diameter).
McMaster Carr offers "low profile" domed head rivets in similar head dimensions.
McMaster Carr's standard aluminum domed head rivets have smaller head diameter and taller head protrusions.

Your pictures of your installed dome rivets "appear" to have the same head profile as the AN470 aircraft rivets.

Only mentioning this because it seems like extra work having to re-machine rivet heads when you could buy an 1/8 lb bag of long rivets then simply have to only cut them to length before setting them.
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