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| blackwolf Member Since: 03 Nov 2009 Location: South West England Posts: 17388   
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I am unfamiliar with the specific one you mention, but if you have any significant amount of hand breakstem riveting to do, I highly recommend one of the long arm type of rivet setters since this type massively reduced both the effort of setting the rivets, and the likelihood of mashing your fingers. About 20 years ago I bought an Eclipse 2760 with handles about 20" in length and it has been fantastic, the fact that it needs relatively little effort to set rivets even as large as 6mm means that they can be set with precision.
If you have a huge amount to do, then consider a good power riveter, but the good ones tend to be expensive, especially good ones powerful enough to set large diameter breakstem rivets. |
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8th Aug 2019 8:59am |
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| lohr500 Member Since: 14 Sep 2014 Location: Skipton Posts: 1317 
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Cheers Blackwolf,
Those long arm ones are the type I've been looking at. I find the single grip types very hard to use if you have a few rivets to do and like yourself, I've trapped my fingers once too often. I don't have 100's to do, so can't justify buying a decent air powered gun. |
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8th Aug 2019 9:14am |
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| Stacey007 Member Since: 25 Sep 2015 Location: Cheshire Posts: 3751
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I've done a few capings on my series, I find an old t shirt wrapped around your hand / handle works well as your right when it 'snaps' it can flippin hurt
At shows I've looked at ones with a large concertina handle that look like you just push in. Too be honest I find the little cheap one now I use a T shirt ok as its manoeuvrable in gaps and you get to know when its going to 'snap' If you do change update if you find the new one better |
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8th Aug 2019 10:58am |
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| Eduardo Member Since: 28 Aug 2008 Location: Región Metropolitana Posts: 2110  
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Finally I bougth a quite cheap one from China
Quite good results if you use with a good drill I do almost all my roof rack with this...  Click image to enlarge Click image to enlarge Eduardo MY 2007 110 SW PUMA 2.4: Big Fog of 64' MY 1994 Jayco 1207 Folding camper: "El Tremendo" Click image to enlarge |
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8th Aug 2019 3:55pm |
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| lohr500 Member Since: 14 Sep 2014 Location: Skipton Posts: 1317
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I saw that type Eduardo but I couldn't find many reviews so I decided against it.
In the end I've ordered a cheap twin lever arm Nielsen tools one from Amazon. It has 17" arms so should give more leverage than the cheap single grip types. It only goes up to 4.8mm sized stems, for steel or ali, but that's all I need. At £14 its got to be worth a try. Lots of positive reviews with one roofer claiming to have set 1000 rivets with it before it packed up. I have 20 or so to fit on the dinghies, then I only tend to use 10 or 20 rivets a year, so it should be fine for my needs. Will report back after use. Hopefully it isn't a case of "you get what you pay for"! |
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9th Aug 2019 12:21pm |
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| lohr500 Member Since: 14 Sep 2014 Location: Skipton Posts: 1317
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So, 20 x 4.8mm Monel rivets fitted today and the cheap tool has worked faultlessly.
Hardly exhaustive testing, but at least it didn't break on the 1st attempt. It needed a reasonable amount of force to work, but much easier than the hand grip type tools. |
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11th Aug 2019 3:44pm |
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