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September 6th 08, 12:44 AM
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Getting a little squeeze (riveting)
My new rivet squeezer arrived today from Aircraft Spruce and right on
time too. Anyway with a new tool to play with and nothing to rivet, I squeezed over a few pop rivets I had already installed. Holy crap Batman did those rivets look great and they're tighter than ever. I used 3/16" cupped dies on both sides and I have to say they're the best looking pop rivet joints I've ever seen. I can hardly wait to start setting solid rivets... Tony 
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September 6th 08, 04:03 PM
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Getting a little squeeze (riveting)
On Sep 5, 5:44*pm, Anthony W wrote:
My new rivet squeezer arrived today from Aircraft Spruce and right on time too. Anyway with a new tool to play with and nothing to rivet, I squeezed over a few pop rivets I had already installed. *Holy crap Batman did those rivets look great and they're tighter than ever. *I used 3/16" cupped dies on both sides and I have to say they're the best looking pop rivet joints I've ever seen. I can hardly wait to start setting solid rivets... Tony I've never heard of using a squeeze riveter to set pop rivets. Is this normally done?
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September 7th 08, 02:30 AM
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Getting a little squeeze (riveting)
150flivver wrote:
On Sep 5, 5:44 pm, Anthony W wrote: My new rivet squeezer arrived today from Aircraft Spruce and right on time too. Anyway with a new tool to play with and nothing to rivet, I squeezed over a few pop rivets I had already installed. Holy crap Batman did those rivets look great and they're tighter than ever. I used 3/16" cupped dies on both sides and I have to say they're the best looking pop rivet joints I've ever seen. I can hardly wait to start setting solid rivets... Tony I've never heard of using a squeeze riveter to set pop rivets. Is this normally done? I don't know. I didn't have any solid rivets at the moment and I wanted to play with my new toy. so I squeezed some pop rivets I had already set. These weren't in any aircraft stuff so it wouldn't hurt if I screwed them up. I have to say it sure made them look nice and they're the tightest pop rivets I've ever seen... Tony
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