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2x or 3x rivet gun?
what would you recommend for a project that is vastly 1/8 rivets and maybe 5% 3/32 rivets, a 2x or 3x gun?
also, your 2 or 3 favorite shaped bucking bars? can you tell i want to get into solid rivets? |
You can always dial down a 3x. You can't dial up a 2x. In my opinion, the bucking bar will matter more than whether you use a 2x or 3x though.
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Rivet gun
Rivet gun...Sioux 3X
Bucking bar...Titanium rectangular one with the angled face on one end. |
I use a 4x for virtually everything. Longer stroke equals harder hits, equals less hits equals less hardening.
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Tunsten
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Tungsten bar! Titanium leg. Gotta get that right. |
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What I found was the 3X is great when riveting a lot of structure, say along the longerons or three or more skins together. The 2X is great for skin to rib or skin to bulkheads AKA the places that will be seen. The 2X is light enough that it is very difficult to dent the skins with it. Buy a hand squeezer from Avery's and a longeron and no-hole yoke and what you can's squeeze you can drive. |
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Since you said the project you are considering is 95% 1/8 rivets, my recommendation would be for at least a 3X.
My preference is a 2X for 3/32 rivets put you will have so few it probably wouldn't matter. The bucking bar that is my favorite is no longer available so I can't recommend anything, but for 1/8 rivets stick with bars on the heavier side. Thinking about building a T18? |
Plus one for the 4x. It seems to me to cause less skin distortion. You said mostly 1/8 inch. For me a 3x would be the minimum. Oh, and get one with a good feathering trigger.
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Tungsten Bar & 3X Gun
..dial up or down. i wouldn't go smaller than a 3x gun.
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