Harbor freight pop rivet gun3/11/2023 ![]() ![]() May sound weird but I find it lots of fun cranking in rivets with it lol. I have a pneumatic rivet gun and the only real downside to it is I have a tendency to rivet everything in site when ever I get it out lol! Overall: Recommend it for the average home wrencher. Doing this saved my garage floor and spared me time from having to wipe the oil off my sled. I rubber banded a scotch guard pad to catch the blowby oil from the air exhaust and I cut a circular doggy pee pad and hot glued it to the base of the rivet gun to catch drips so they wouldn't leak on my garage floor. I couldn't get the cylinder base to open with the factory supplied tool. (b) The cheap spanner wrench to open the cylinder to add the oil is substandard and may slip out when using it I zipped it out using an impact wrench. ![]() Just enough oil to fill to the top of the piston frame NOT THE ENTIRE CYLINDER or you'll have a mess on your hands. You do not need to dump the hole bottle into the piston assembly. You can get a bottle of it from Greed-Mart in the air compressor section. ![]() The tool must be primed with air tool oil. Why did I ever waste my time with manual hand riveter's? Has spare parts to rebuild it.Ĭons: Though minor, there are some you should be aware of: I should have bought one of these YEARS ago. Pros: Cost effective, works as it should. I knocked a dozen rivets in less than a minute! It works like a champ with my cheap 20 gallon air compressor. I then decided to purchase the Harbor Freight Air Hydraulic rivet gun. After several uses, the gripper failed and wouldn't latch onto the rivet. It looked like it was made of cheap pot steel! The cheap Harbor Freight rivet gun was made of stamped steel and handles were real strong but the gripper mechanicsm wouldn't release rivets which slowed things down too much having to manually remove them. I would not recommend the expensive Sears hand or the cheap ($10) Harbor Freight manual rivet gun. This weekend, I was doing some minor rivet work and I broke 2 manual/hand squeeze rivet guns during the process. I'm wondering if they are all made in the same place, the ones on the left get yellow paint, the ones in the middle get red paint, and the ones on the right get black paint though.Best $38.99 (not including 20% off coupon found in popular mechanics/science and reader's digest magazines) I have spent. Seems the majority from the other mention suppliers run from about $50 to $120. My gut tells to to purchase from Aircraft Spruce, but it also tells me I probably don't need to spend $314.00 on a rivet gun I'm going to use for one project. I've looked a Home Dept, Jegs, Amazon, KMS Tools, Princess Auto, Speedway Motors, and Aircraft Spruce. Is an air gun recommended or not that big of a deal with a manual gun? I've looked for reviews, and, as I stated, I don't really know my rivet guns, but when I see a Stanley gun in the top three recommended tools, I feel a bit skeptical as to the quality of review. Just looking for some insight from those who know what they are talking about! I'm going to be welding on the floor, but all the panels will be aluminum, and there fore riveted to the frame. To the best of my knowledge, I've never operated a rivet gun in my life. ![]()
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