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Old 12-19-2013, 04:05 PM
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Default Anti Vibration Rivet Gun and Bucking Bar

My rivet gun supplier showed me a slow motion video of a rivet gun and bucking bar with and without their anti vibration technology. It is amazing how much abuse the hand and arm take during the riveting process. I ended up buying two of their anti vibration rivet guns (large one because I was having trouble driving the 1/8" rivets with the small one) and have been very satisfied with them. I demoed an anti vibration bucking bar but couldn't justify the cost and am using a tungsten bar, but with a glove not my bare hand.

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http://www.atlascopco.ca/usus/produc...q=rivet%20tool
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Old 12-19-2013, 07:06 PM
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I'm an Oral Surgeon and started to suffer from significant tennis elbow pain about six months ago. Physio was of little help, the band on the upper forearm did little, but muscle stimulation treatments by my chiropractor(I developed back pain from this job last year) have helped keep it manageable. I have to say that I'm a little dismayed to hear that many of you have developed this problem from the build, and I'm looking at starting a build with this problem already! I guess everything will need to be pneumatic!

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Old 12-19-2013, 10:58 PM
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I have also been there - spent a lot of money on all sorts of treatment mentioned above. The only real solution is to give it a good rest. Second to that - a pneumatic cleco tool made a huge difference. I found that it was actually the clecoe-ing causing the pain and not the riveting.
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