
Cheaper than a hand riveter, and far better as well.

Cheaper than a hand riveter, and far better as well.
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Where did you get it, and how much was it?
Looks really good. Wish I had some rivetting to do!!
I recently got a manual rivnut tool. It works brilliantly, but I'm thinking of getting a pop rivet gun as well. Do you have any experience with the pneumatic variety that you could share?
Getting one of these as an add-on for a pneumatic/electric drill is also a possibility, and certainly more practical. I do love pneumatic tools though.
neb: From the text on it you can probably guess the origins :-). The specific item was this one, so USD 17. There are a bunch of variations, some cheaper but a bit more plasticky, this one is pretty solid steel/alu.
What's it like on 4.8mm aluminium rivets of the typical type used for coloursteel etc? These are an annoying size with basic hand-riveters, even with a good quality BluePoint (Snap-On) tool you've really got to squeeze hard enough to hurt your hands before they pop. Doing a few is okay, but if it's several dozen it's rather unpleasant,
Does it need to be used with a drill on low speed ?
Fred99:What's it like on 4.8mm aluminium rivets of the typical type used for coloursteel etc? These are an annoying size with basic hand-riveters, even with a good quality BluePoint (Snap-On) tool you've really got to squeeze hard enough to hurt your hands before they pop. Doing a few is okay, but if it's several dozen it's rather unpleasant,
Does it need to be used with a drill on low speed ?
Not sure if I have any 4.8mm rivets, but if you're coming to the Geekzone meetup next month I can bring it along and you can test-drive it on whatever you like.
andrewNZ: We tried one of those at work. It did about 5 rivets before collapsing internally.
Is that that exact one, or one of the infinite number of mostly-plastic alternatives? I used that with a bunch of random old rivets lying around and there were no problems.
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