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Pop rivets are great. Get you out of all sorts of sheet-
metal or automotive trim crises.
But I rarely carry around a drill, pop-riveter and a bag of
rivets. .
So this thing, it looks like a couple of 4-color keener pens,
hinged together at one end. Packed up, they are folded
like a
jack-knife. In use, they unfold and lock at a right
angle. One side has a push drill (a drill chuck on a spiral
shaft, that turns when pushed on). The other side has a
pop-rivet chuck that pulls the rivet slowly when the handle
is turned. Somewhere in there, too , is a spot to stash a
few rivets.
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since the bit needn't be very long why not simply have a push drill with a stubby bit and a stubby little threaded driver? all the driver needs to be is a threaded anvil and a small folding arm to allow the user to apply torque. |
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[WcW].. thanks.. Stubby bit is good.. Not sure I
understand the part about the threaded
anvil/threaded driver.. |
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well you need to pull the anvil into the driver with twisting force but until the anvil is tight there's nothing to torque against thus the tiny handle to hold in your other hand. might be less of an issue with pop rivets. |
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Decent sized pop rivets require quite a lot of leverage.... could be a problem to use if the shafts are too short. Can they be telescopic? |
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just use the extra leverage of the drill to pull it slowly, really really hard. |
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