Aircraft are built using real rivets, the kind that take 2 guys to install. Not cheap blind rivets that you buy at home depot. A 747 has as many as 5.5 million rivets, installed in a proffessional assembly line by skilled craftsmen. Comparing this to something rough country makes is a ****ing joke.
As far as light bar brackets being expensive, thats because people buying them have no skills, and cannot make them for themselves. The $20 comment proves you know nothing about fabrication.
The pure ammount of led light bar brackets available for sale is a bad omen for our scene... how embarassing.