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Arbor press to set rivets on the spar
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Comment by Greg Harris on August 12, 2015 at 6:39am
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I also plan to use this method to set my solid rivets. My idea was to use a visual indicator for the depth to get consistent sets. Like a piece of tape on the ram or a sharpie line. It looks like he has some tape or something at the top of the ram to indicate the depth. I paid $40 + shipping for my arbor press, but I found an economy set of hand rivet squeezers for $80. Have to buy the rivet dies either way. I'll use the arbor press for other things, but now I'm wondering if I should just go ahead and get the squeezers. On a tight budget, so I'll probably try the arbor press first.
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Comment by Michael Chesney on February 17, 2015 at 8:38am
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Did the arbor press work well to set the solid rivets? Did you incorporate some kind of stop to achieve consistently set rivets?
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