Thanks again all. I will be meeting with a builder in the next week or so once we get schedules worked out, but figured I would provide an update.
I tried a bunch of rivets on scrap tonight and they looked great. I then tried going back to the spar, and was running into some of the same troubles. But I found that if I started the rivet squeeze with the manual squeezer, then the pneumatic would finish it off. It is almost as if contact with the rivet stem too early would cause it to stop squeezing. Has anyone heard of this?
FWIW it is an Avery squeezer that I bought second hand, barely used, from another builder.
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