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Originally Posted by MartinGough  Graham
I learnt the lesson of buying an air rivetter the hard way by trapping my index finger nail between the handles setting a rivet. I spent a sleepless night until I gave up at 3am and drilled two 1.5mm holes in the nail to relieve the blood and pressure under the nail. Now the nail has fallen off.
Regards Martin |
I hate it when that happens!!!
One of my favorite old sayings;
Nothing hurts quite like pain...
That said - Hand pulling a thousand or so Stainless Steel rivets will give you the grip of Samson, but it's certainly no fun...
One of the reasons I used to rationalize the purchase of an air-riveter is that I have a lot better control of the riveter when it "Pops!" the rivet - having scared a very nice panel on a customer car once a number of years ago and caused myself a number of hours additional labor.. I've not looked back..