It’s basically an industrial rivet. Ifor willinas use them for there floors and to put the side panels together as well. They’re really strong holding.Well that's completely new to me,
Looks amazing, is that the advantages of a rivet, with a threaded shaft ?.
but also don’t want to spent £500.
Ive owned one now for the last 10 years and although mostly hobby use it has never let me down. The batteries are obscenely expensive but you can find adapters that can step them to a Makita or Dewalt battery which is the best way tbh if you already have the system.My experience is the same as @Trevorleach 's.
As @roofman has posted, if you want reliability, it has to be Gesipa.
We don't use them that much at work, and we've gone through various riveters.
There doesn't seem to be any difference in durability between the cheapest and the more expensive air riveters.
However having dealt with some specialist stuff held together with monobolts that the company's own techs dealt with, they all had Gesipa kit. They used it daily, and it would last a couple years in between needing serviced.
They take some serious pulling power to set them.So whats stopping you putting these in like rivnuts?
Assume the proper mandrel is like a long nut split in half?
They’re structural.What’s the advantage of these over ‘normal’ pop rivets?
No Chance. Even with old skool lazy tongs.So whats stopping you putting these in like rivnuts?
Assume the proper mandrel is like a long nut split in half?
What’s the advantage of these over ‘normal’ pop rivets?
They’re structural.
Used a lot in aircraft. Look up Cherry Aerospace, they’re the main ones in aviation as far as I know.
@KimBNo Chance. Even with old skool lazy tongs.
They are classed as "Structural" as in same as a weldment
What’s the advantage of these over ‘normal’ pop rivets?
Hmmm that reminds me - I used to have loads of steel pop rivets. I’ll have to see if I have any left. They also took a bit of effort to set! I used the lazy tongs type and also some long handled things, but they weren’t much easier!Plated steel rivet they take a lot of pulling. I had a small collection of them which I used to set with a lazy-tongs riveter but you couldn't pull them if you pulled the riveter handle out more than about 1/3 way. Taking short strokes gives better mecanical advantage but it's still hard going.
That’s a posh version of the ones I have.Need one of these..