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Re: pic: new shoes
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Originally Posted by AdamHeard
If a team is doing rivets in any meaningful qty, spending a few hundred bucks for a nice riveter and small compressor is well worth it.
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I think it depends on what you mean by "meaningful quantity." If you're putting together a tube-and-gusset chassis, it's not all that difficult to do your riveting by hand. It's still faster than bolting the assembly together.
If you're doing sheet metal, I can see how it would be a real pain to have to do all your rivets manually.
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