Recommendations for Rivet tools

[Billfred]

Originally Posted by Knufire

Steel rivets or aluminum rivets with steel mandrels?

I definitely recommend not using steel body rivets for robots, drilling them out is a massive pain compared to aluminum.

Agreed here--unless you have a known reason for using steel, go aluminum (with either aluminum or steel mandrels).

Garnet Squadron's always used cheap Harbor Freight or hardware store riveters and considered them consumables--they seem to last about 0.8 build seasons before crapping out, whether we spend $5 or $20. Allen's recommended riveters are getting bookmarked for future evaluation, though.