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New hydropneumatic riveter system

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ROTARY7

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For anyone interested, my company (MDS) has developed a new Hydropneumatic Riveter System. Below are the Youtube links. You can see it at Oshkosh Airventure 2010, at Cleaveland Aircraft Tool's booth, right next to Vans booth.

I developed this system while building my still not complete RV-7 (that is it in the video). One day I'll get it done...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrnGpGR-9Mc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCNSwSy8ZMo


The C-yoke riveter shown, weighs only 2.5 Lbs, with yoke, as compared to a standard squeezer which weighs nearly 6 lbs. It is also obviously smaller. The intensifier (power generation portion with foot valve) can be used to power other heads such as a blind rivet puller or alligator squeezer.

I'll be at Oshkosh on Tuesday and Wednesday on and off at Cleaveland's booth, if you have questions or want to see it in action.
 
Nice Unit - Few questions

Mark,
Looks to be a well designed sanitary unit.
Does it use standard yokes or..?
Is it in production?
Do you have a website?
And lastly - what is/will be the cost of the unit?
Regards,
Bill
 
Bill,

Thanks for the compliment.

I don't have a website yet, but will after Oshkosh. Cleaveland Aircraft Tool will be carrying the unit.

http://www.cleavelandtoolstore.com/

An initial pre-production batch of approximately 10 units is almost complete. These are considered Beta units, for follow on testing, and limited distribution.

It does not use standard yokes. Originally I had wanted to use them, since there are so many out there. However to properly guide the hydraulic piston in the main body (7075 aluminum, hard coated), and to keep the unit compact, it was not practical to use standard yokes. Maybe I will design a follow unit that can accept standard yokes, at some additional growth in size and weight.

The target price is about $875. This may appear quite a bit more than a traditional squeezer, however, traditional squeezers dont include a foot valve (~$100) and an adjustable compression pin (~$60). Also, follow on forming heads can be purchased without re-buying the intensifier, such and an alligator head, an pop rivet puller head. You will be able to see an extremely compact pop rivet puller at Oshkosh.

Thanks for your interest.
 
I'm back from Oshkosh (already, couldn't stay the whole week).

If anyone wants more info, please email me at:

[email protected]

And I'll be happy to send you a 12 page pdf file describing the unit.
 
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