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Re: Rivet tools--what's out there today?

While you are ordering your pneumatic pop rivet gun you should invest in some of these.

http://mrotools.com/cleco-fasteners....FUlxQgodNzMAsQ

These are great to have in your tool box.

We don't carry our compressor when we travel. We use the manual rivet guns in our travel tool box.

Take a look at our robot this year. We used about 200 rivets to put our robot together. We did a lot of lock and tab joints where we create a tab that fits in a rectangular notch to locate a part. We then rivet it together. Places with high stress have screws and pem nuts instead of rivets. We also made use of a csk punch tool to csk our pilot holes for the rivets. Keep in mind you don't need a massive amount of rivets to join parts together.
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