Thinking of buying an air powered riveter
anyone used one? is it worth it ?I can get one for £45. Any advice on good drill bits to use....cheers Rob
How many cars are you thinking of building?
thought I would use it and sell it on through this section...rob
I love mine - makes rivetting a dream
Bit bulky for awkward spaces, though
I've been using one for a while now and love it. It's obviously much faster than using a hand rivet gun, and I feel it gives me more
control over what I'm doing, as there is next to no effort in pulling the pins on the rivets. I've put about 1000 rivets through mine in my
current truck build-up, and would buy it again.
[Edited on 8/14/2005 by the JoKeR]
I bought one of these after I completely knackered my hand clinching 500 5mm stainless rivets!!! Absolutely indispensible tool unless you are only
ever going to build one car, in which case maybe better to borrow one.
Drill-wise, buy some "Stub drills". They come in the exact imperial sizes needed for the rivets, and the tips are ground to a shallow angle
so they self-centre extremely well (no need for centre punching on flat ally) They also only have 1 conplete spiral of fluting and are short, helping
to get into tight corners and preventing snapping or drilling into things pehind panels! You can get them posted from Cromwell Tools (in the uk!)
Cromwell Tools, stub drills
BUY the riviter. I borrowed one before shelling out for one. Brilliant. As for the drill bits I buy them from the stall in the market. HSS drill
bits. Packs of ten with a "lifetime guarantee" for a couple of quid.
Work well until the end of their life and you snap them. They last as long as expensive ones and you don't half go through them when building a
car.
I broke a 3.5mm drill and it was the last one I had on a Sunday afternoon so I sharpened it on the bench grinder at a shallower angle than original and about half its original length. I still use it now 4 years later when drilling alu.
Thanks Guys minds made up, anyway, who wants wrist ache.?...Rob
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Originally posted by Peteff
I broke a 3.5mm drill and it was the last one I had on a Sunday afternoon so I sharpened it on the bench grinder at a shallower angle than original and about half its original length. I still use it now 4 years later when drilling alu.