[TheForge] rivets

Wed Mar 26 16:12:05 2003

 From my reading, pneumatic riveters are fundamentally different than 
air chippers or air hammers in both stroke length as well as beats per 
minute.   I would look at one of the aircraft homebuilt sites for more 
information, since they do a lot of riveting.  pneumatic rivet guns are 
pretty common second hand around here.  If you have any trailer repair 
shops or aircraft facilities in the area I would cruise the pawn shops 
near them.  

Charles

R.C.Mundt wrote:

>Has anyone had any experiance riveting w/ an air hammer, the hand held variety?
>I have a chipping hammer you know a little jackhammer about 18" long, thought I would use it for riveting so cut of the chisle end on the tool , heated it, and drove a rivet head into it to make a heading tool. the way my rivets were located I couldn't get a straight shot at them so put an offset in the tool.
>I thought I was going to rivet like nobodys business,wrong.
>I bent rivets and formed heads off center like nobodys business.Finally wound up doing most of the rivetting w/ a hand hammer and punch and using the air hammer for the final shaping of the head.  I'm sure  the offset in the tool didn't help matters, but it sure seemed like I was hitting the rivets straight on. Any Ideas?
>Randy Mundt
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