Rivet Tools

Types of Pop Riveting Tools Transcript

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Bob: Welcome back to Albany County Fasteners - Fasteners 101. Today we're going to teach you about the different types of rivet tools. So let's get started.

So we're going to review rivet tools. This is your standard hand rivet tool. This is good for most installations of rivets all the way up to a #6. Nothing special about it. It's a hand tool. It's made for the DIY guy or the contractor that just puts in a couple of rivets every now and then or he's putting in a soffit and needs to install some rivets. Its mainly used for simple, easy installations.

This is a pneumatic rivet tool. You need to have an air source to supply air to it. You need about 80 pounds of air, 60 to 80 pounds. This is a great tool. It's fast. Great for production.

And then we have the big bolt cutter type. This is made for structural type rivets, 1/4 inch rivets or larger. You put your rivet in there and you snap that baby. This is for large rivets. Stainless or Aluminum, this will handle large rivets.

And that's it.

RK401CR Cordless Riveter Review Transcript

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Bob: Welcome back to Albany County Fasteners - Fasteners 101. I'm Bob and today I'm going to review and demonstrate this cordless Riveter. So let's get started.

I have here the model RK401CR. This is a Rivet King commercial professional Riveter. It comes with one battery, comes with one charger. You get the power cord, get the instruction manual, you get three-in-one wrenches. This has three different nuts that you can remove with this one wrench. It has three additional nozzles. There's one in there right now and it does (is compatible with) rivets from 3/32" to 3/16."

The battery here, slides in very easily. It has a quick release so you pop it right in. Pop it right off. Slides nicely into the charger. If it's plugged in, it will just start charging. This is actually nice because it just slides right in and it's quick to charge.

It probably weighs about, I don't know, four or five pounds I would say approximately. It's a nice unit. It's a well balanced unit.

What's really nice about this is that after the mandrel-I'll just demonstrate right here. You put your rivet in, this is a number 6 rivet, and I'm just going to pop it in and see what happens to the mandrel. It'll actually slide back and drop into the back and you can hear that. I'm just gonna drop them out now so you can see. Here are the broken mandrels. So you don't have to sit there and waste your time trying to pull it out of the nozzle that's it. Another one. There you go and another one. 1-2-3.

I'm now going to demonstrate it by having the rivets installed into steel. I'm going to now show you how fast this rivets.

So as you can see, it rivets very quickly. This was only for demonstration purposes. It does a nice job at riveting. It's very tight, it's clean and as you can see the mandrels are pulled out of the back. Very nice unit. It's a must-have if you use rivets on a regular basis, it's a nice tool.

BL18DR Cordless Riveter Review Transcript

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Bob: Today we're going to demonstrate the use of this battery-operated BL18DR Proferred BBI Tool Riveter.

So I have this cordless riveter and it's pretty light. It's about 6.5 pounds. I put a new nozzle, new nose on the head. To handle a number 6 rivet. You can use this rivet tool up to a number 8. You can go pretty heavy with this cordless riveter. Comes with an 18 volt Ion battery. For quick charging. It comes with two batteries, the charger, and it comes with miscellaneous tools, and it comes with the nozzles.

It's pretty cool how this adjusts. You take the nozzle off, you change the actual nose. Unscrew the nose off to change for the different size of rivet that you are going to use. Then you just screw the nozzle right back on. The whole head just screws on and it has this head that adjusts.

So you don't have to do anything else on the inside other than slip your rivet in there after you put the correct nose on. I'm going to demonstrate right now for you the installation of a rivet.

Put it (the rivet) into the material and I'm going to hold the button. Done. Then it kicks it (the mandrel) out. So here's the mandrel and you can see in here is the rivet. Perfect.

Cordless. No pneumatic. No air required. Great for job sites. I'm gonna do another one for ya. Done. There we go.

I'm gonna just do one right now without having it inside the material. You can see it fastens very well. I'm doing this right now. You can see it pulls in, OOP! POP! and it spits the other one out.

Let me get another one. There you go, you can watch how this tool pulls it in. There ya go. That's the demonstration for the cordless riveter.

Pneumatic Rivet Gun Transcript

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Bob: This is a pneumatic rivet tool and obviously you need to have an air source to supply air to it. You need about 80 pounds of air. 60 to 80 pounds. This is a great tool. Fast. Great for production.

So now i'm going to demonstrate to you the installation of the pneumatic rivet gun. This is a a really cool tool. It's quick it's fast so if you're in a production line that you want to produce quick action riveting, this is the tool for that.

So I'm just going to install the mandrel into the rivet tool. This is a large flange rivet I'm installing. So I'm just going to install it. Watch this.

Fast action. Quick. Material doesn't matter. It can be stainless, it can be aluminum, could be steel, it doesn't really matter what you put in. This tool will get the job done fast.