What the heck is a Rivet Squeezer? Find Out Here Now
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- čas přidán 10. 09. 2024
- Rivet Squeezer broke. I repair my Rivet Squeezer. I make a new part, heat treat, install and demonstrate the Rivet Squeezer. These tools are commonly used in aircraft construction and repair. But these are a great shop tool for sheet metal work and other types of decorative rivets.
The Heat Treatment App I use on my IPhone.
Heat Treating App: Heat Treaters Guide, HTS Heat Treating Society, ASM International.
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This comment section is a treat to read. The "know-it-all" , "I can do it better" bozo's do not tread here!! Perfect repair and video editing. Well done.
Thank you Paul. Well not to often at least.
Love the picture in picture detail. Your blueprint before commencing was beautiful. Puts my pop riveter to shame.
Thank you! Cheers!
I love the explanation section. You always pass on SO much information. The machining section is great as well. You are becoming quite the Video Wizard.
Thank you Bruce. just trying.
I use a similar rivet tool only with a screw instead of the squeeze handle for sickle section rivers. They are 1/4” though so probably need the screw advantage
Yeah 1/4" steel rivets are tough, but there are pneumatic guns for those. Thanks Brian.
I just learned about riveting.. Good video. You guys stay healthy !
Thank you Mike. Stay Safe Mike and Mary.
Thanks for the tutorial, very informative
Thanks David.
Glad to see your out in the shop.
Trying to get something done. Thanks Ken.
Great repair and illustration Randy !
Thanks you Jason.
Nice tool they work wonders.i like the dimple dies. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Thanks Robert. They really are great tools.
Nice touch on the video production. I like the tooling identification.
Thank you Rick. I like it also.
Loved the repair Randy, and a cool tool for sure if you have a use for it. I do find the picture on picture thing annoying though.
Thanks Warren for the feedback.
good repair.Used one many times . I'm a retired AME 35 yrs fixing aircraft
Thanks Bill, Nice.
Great fix Randy ! ENJOYED
Thanks Shawn.
Great video..discussion/demonstration/build...new welding table surface looked occupied...it might be hard to reduce it....atb
Thanks Chuck, Yeah I am loving the table.
Well that's very interesting.
I have an old hay cutter that uses 1/4 in rivets to hold knife sections in place normally you would put rivets into bar and knife sections put bfh under and peen the rivet with other hammer now i just made a block with a concave machined with round nose cutter pull knife out of cutter which is only bolt grind off old rivets and punch them out then set block with the concave dimple on hydraulic press put rivets in knife bar and section and use the press to squeeze the rivets down works great can replace all sections in about an hour 14 feet worth 3 in blades lot easier than hammering lol never knew about these kinds of rivet sqeezers before im guessing you would need pretty long handles to squeeze a 1/4 in steel rivet 👍👍
There are hand held pneumatic rivet squeezers that can do 1/4" rivets with easy. Thanks.
Randy, very nice split screen camera work. Very interesting tool. I love watching you make your own repair parts. I'm a retired machinist and miss it alot. Roger
Thank you Roger, faster, easier, cheaper to do myself, oh and it is the right part.
@@RRINTHESHOP very good point Randy! Lol
Very dramatic music...
Cheers!
Perfect, and riveting. Thanks Arthur.
Great video effects Randy...!
Thank you kindly TC.
Nice video Randy. Takes me back 35 years ago when I wanted to buy a ground looped 170 tail dragger. I wanted to do all the repairs but could not find someone that would sign me off on the rivet repairs so I passed on buying it. Thanks for sharing. Gary
Nice, 170s are nice. Thanks Gray, have a Happy Thanksgiving.
Well done Randy. Nice tools
Thanks Randy, works great now.
Nice editing. I like the new lettering over the video. This must be the first job in the new shop. Take care Randy
Thanks for the ride. Love the new graphics and detailed information. I hope it doesn’t take too long to add them to your editing. Please keep adding them if at all possible. It’s a great resource to know what I need to add on my shop. 👍👍😎👍👍
Thanks Joel for the great feedback. I will try, lots of work.
Gday Randy, thanks for showing and demonstrating the rivet tool, I’ve seen these for sale before but didn’t know how they worked but now I do, you did a great job on the repair, take care mate. Cheers Matty
Thanks Matty, worked out great.
Very interesting! Thanks for sharing. Cheers
Thanks Joe.
Great video Randy! 👍🏼 I have only used a pneumatic gun with a bucking bar. This tool looks great. Thanks for sharing some tricks of the trade! 👏
This is a great addition to the home shop for small projects and quick and easy to use. I have used a pneumatic gun and bucking bar an awful lot also. Thanks Jon. I like the bag.
This is great! I have been in aviation for years...thanks!
Thank you ADK.
Nice tool Randy, I actually have one or two anvils laying around here somewhere. In my youth I spent many hours inside a P-51 fuselage bucking bar in hand helping my boss rebuilding his toy. (I was much skinnier back then) Thanks for the video.
Nice, Riveting is a great joining method.
Great info!!
Thanks, Paul.
Morning Randy! Gee I never knew that they made those so small. I use to work for CSX Transportation at there Raceland Car Shop and we had hydraulic power one that could squeeze 1" to 1.500" rivets. They were deep throat that could reach half way of a side sheet for coal cars. Two Carmen on the squeezers and two Carmen placing the side stakes and loadind the revets could revet a side sheet in one hour. Very interesting to watch the process.
Thanks Craig. I did not know they made them that big. Rivets are great.
Good video, it was actually, rivetting! Cheers Randy!
I wanted to say that in the video, very riveting Thanks Howder.
Randy Since you expanded your shop you also went professional on your editing! Outstanding! Thanks for the quick class on riveting! I love that tool! =D
This a great tool for the home shop and small projects. Thanks John a lot of time editing.
Interesting tool! Those hardness testing files look handy too!
The files are great. Thanks 357.
Hello Randy,
That Rivet Squeezer is a good looking tool, nice job getting it back into service...
Take care
Paul,,
Thank you Paul. Works great again.
You could probably do ONE 1/4" rivet! LOL Very dramatic music. Some great production work. Nice riveting tool. Stay well, stay safe.
A #10 one is hard enough. Thank you Vernon. Take Care.
That little Logan is a peach.....Dave
I love it Dave. I use it all the time. MC to you and the family.
You could have sent that to Mr Pete for a "what is it" episode. Looks like a medical instrument.
Yep that would of been a good one. Thanks Barry.
Hmm... somehow I don't think this was the tool used to make that monolith. Those looked like pop rivets, this looks much better.
Yep for sure Wes. Thanks.
Nice 👍🏻
Thanks Craig.
That piece is always the weak link in those squeezers. I order them by the dozen for our shop. Personally I believe they are manufactured a bit to hard making them brittle and easy to break. If used on 3/32 and 1/8" rivets only they last a long time. But using them on 5/32" or larger rivets that piece will fail quickly. Nice work.
I tend to agree, I think making them from 4130 PH no heat treatment, they would last much longer. Maybe even a bit of redesign also. Thanks 40Cleco.
Now I know what some of the weird tools I have do!!! My wife's granddad was an aircraft sheet metal mechanic and I inherited his tools several years ago. I have a squeezer in the box, but I've never known what it was. Thanks for showing all this. I learn something new every time I watch your videos.
Thank you Greg. They are great tools. It is fun to rivet.
My squeezer was returned to me broken similarly after I loaned it out to a certain visiting IA. That was apparently the year the FAA was including a license in boxes of Cracker Jacks.
Bummer. Thanks Tom. Did you fix it?
@@RRINTHESHOP the guy who broke toms riveter is out looking for his left hand safety pliers
@@robertharper8776 Yep maybe even the entire arm.
Great repair Randy. And it was done Randy Richard right. I think you must have a new video editor.
Thanks Harold. No same, just trying some of the other features.
That's a chinese copy of a TATCO Rivet Squeezer, invented by my late friend Don Townend of Hawthorne Ca.
Great info, Thank you.
Great video Randy! You must have some new editing software or you're learning some new tricks with the old software.
Thank you Bob. Yep learning more about the software I have.
say Randy,
does it make a difference in how the anvil strikes the rivet? does the tail end of the rivet that gets rounded over need to be against the stationary anvil or the moving one? or does it even really matter?? i know from boilers and such that the tail end that gets rounded over is against a moving anvil.. just the dynamic of the process. so it kinda leaves open a question on a handheld tool such as this. interesting critter and koolll demo.
cheers
mike
I seems not to matter mike. many situations due to space constrainist, you do not get a choice on how you must buck. I have found it matters how well you operate the squeezer and the end of the rivet must be square cut. Thanks. It does take practice.
Well if nothing else I now know what the counter sinks I got in a bucket of tooling from the estate of an old Grumman machinist are..
Those countersinks are great, perfect control for hand work or use in a drill press or mill. Thanks Drew.
@@RRINTHESHOP and where/what would one get the holder-driver? Plus I don’t understand the centering stud
Oh there it is on Amazon.
@@DrewDiaz It is just a pilot so the countersink is concentric with the hole.
@@DrewDiaz Well of course they are, Aircraft Tools also.
Thanks Randy
I like the new graphics in your video pointing out Logan lathe for instance. or I guess spotlighting an item and saying what it is.
kimberzelik@youtube
Thanks Kimber. I hope that helps folks.
I'm looking to squeezer 3/16 solid aluminum rivets. Will these hand squeezers work on that size?
I would say yes, it does come with dies for that size. I have not used it for that size.
1st chips since moving into the new shop extension?
Well not quite but close. Thanks Peter.
Nice repair on that tool - what is the heat treating app you used? Thanks!
Heat Treaters Guide, HTS Heat Treating Society, ASM International. Pretty good info.
Thanks for watching.
@@RRINTHESHOP Thank you Your shop addition turned out great :)
@@kisoia Thank you I am liking it.
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Wishing you were still at kmpi
Thank you, Is this Steve? Yep that would be nice. Are you still out there working on playing.
Yep, as often as I can.
Hi Randy, that was interesting! I'm trying to hold back the dad jokes here. For aircraft, do the alloy's differ if the rivets are used in different parts of the aircraft?
Side note for you - I've served on a couple of steel riveted hulled ships & had the "pleasure" to replace some in dry-dockings. Stay safe and well :)
Thanks Anthony. Yes the rivet alloy is different for the application, depending on many things, materials used, stresses, structural, non - structural. I sailed on at least 4 different vessels of WWII vintage that were riveted hulls. lots of work those rivets.
@@RRINTHESHOP Thanks Randy. One I was on was a whaling ship converted to a hospital ship. It still had the original harpoon in the hold.
@@AJR2208 Wow, I sailed were Tankers.
Randy I'm kind of interested in how many aircraft you repaired while you was out at sea engineering on a ship ???
Lots. I worked 2 months on and 2 months off on the ships (30 yrs) Served as 3rd , 2nd, 1st, and Chief Engineer. When home I worked on planes for about 12 yrs and I am a fully certified FAA Powerplant and Airframe Mechanic, I also worked as a carpenter helping build high end custom Lindal and Justus log homes(20yrs), Also worked with my father in law (Electrical Contractor) we did houses and commercial electrical work (many yrs), I also had a cabinet business for several years, Not counting learned to be a Farrier from my father in law, Supervised logging operations and power line clean up for 4 counties, I am a private pilot.
Thanks Bill is this enough, Not really qualified for much of anything so now it is down to making poor videos on you tube. Even though I just moved a 45 ft container into place at my neighbors with just my small tractor, a couple of small bottle jacks and a lot of careful maneuvering. We are setting up to move in a saw mill in the spring, we are going to mill some lumber.
Randy. You are an amazingly talented guy. One of your strongest attributes is your ability to communicate. So many on CZcams creators have good content ideas but fall WAY short in their presentation skills. Keep up the great work.
@@robinhoff4598 Thank you Robin.
@@RRINTHESHOP thanks Randy you remind me of my father-in-law he was a diesel mechanic machinist and also an A&P plus pilot
very well done sir
@@wnebergall Thank you Bill.