Thread: Rivet tools--what's out there today?
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Re: Rivet tools--what's out there today?
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We are looking at going with rivets the coming season, what kinda pneumatic rivet gun would you guys recommend?
We use pneumatic riveter from Marson and have been happy with it. We use mainly 3/16" rivets but go to 1/4" at times. For the quarter inch we use a Harbor Freight hand riveter. If I'd know we were going to do as much quarter inch as we do I might have gotten a pneumatic riveter that could handle that. Harbor freight has knock off versions of these but we haven't tried those.

We use quarter inch not because we really need the strength typically but sometimes we'll have brackets that are pre-drilled to .25" and it's just easier to use those than to make custom ones at 3/16".
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