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Re: Rivet tools--what's out there today?
Have been using the non-pancake version of that compressor in our garage for 5 years now. No problems.
one note: The pressure gauge on that comes with the compressor does a very poor job of keeping a constant pressure coming out. Shouldn't be much of an issue for riveting, but could cause troubles in other applications. |
Re: Rivet tools--what's out there today?
I have far above average grip strength (from working with tools often), and I still hate pulling rivets manually. Don't ever use a pneumatic rivet puller unless you never want to manually pull a rivet ever again. We bought a Harbor Freight one but haven't used it yet.
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Re: Rivet tools--what's out there today?
As royster44 mentioned, use the manual riveter at competitions, meaning you can ditch the compressor completely.
We have a Harbor Freight pneumatic riveter, but we have hardly used it so I cannot vouch for its durability. It pulls 1/4" aluminum rivets effortlessly. In addition to the smaller hand riveters, we also have a " big daddy" hand riveter. In my estimation one could have assembled the George Washington bridge with it, as it appears to be built to last forever. Not inexpensive though. |
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Pending the green light from the financiers, I think we'll be acquiring this Harbor Freight one for next season. At $40, it only costs us two hand riveters (and we'll blow through those anyway). |
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We do not actually use wide domed rivets. For some reason we prefer the smaller guys. No real reasoning, maybe price? or the ability to get all of the same kind? I honestly couldn't tell you what our thought process was here. But we use 3/16" on our entire bot, its easy to go: We have a #10 hole, we can: -Bolt -Rivet -Ziptie! Makes life easy for us as designing in another set of holes would be a pain, we stole from 973 the #10 bolt pattern idea. So we put #10 holes every .5" inches. We also make a lot of changes on our bot, so the bolt pattern is pretty sweet and versatile. The 1/8" rivets aren't used nearly as much, the reason we actually have them is we spend a lot of time letting new kids explore ideas and making prototypes. We buy 1/32" - 1/16" polycarbonate (3-4 sheets) and a ton of 1/8" rivets, this allows us to make prototypes cheaply and easily. The 1/8" rivets are really easy to use with a manual riveter. 1/8" rivets have a purpose, but they are not really used on the bot. -RC |
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