Electric Rivet/Nutsert Gun?

Those Astro tools look good...

theoldwizard1

Not cheap but for arthritic hands, fingers and wrists it looks to be priceless. Even aluminum nutserts can hold a lot of pressure, stainless steel even more. I have used nutserts in protected wood, trailer skin to mount lights, on and on.

The secret is to get the nutsert holes, dead-on accurate. Thicker material needs a few thousandths larger hole. They also have special grip nutserts especially for thin aluminum skin like on trailers and motorhomes.

Quicksilver lights are all 10x32 stainless ateel nusterts with stainless camlock lock washers. The ramp-type lockwashers are breathtakingly expensive today.

Anyway as soon as I can afford the drill nutsert tool I am getting one.

Thank you sir.

Not cheap.

Astro ADN14 & ADR36 Drill Adapters for Rivet Nuts and Rivets

The makers of the less expensive riv nut guns seem to have a short memory in providing air feed specs. With .040" plastic I suspect I am going to need backing washers. Very thin and larger OD. Thanks for the tip fj12ryder.

The riv nut gun should have a CFM usage figure. Compare that to the CFM output of the compressor, and that should give you an idea. The recovery rate for the pancake HF compressors is pretty low, but I have no idea what the CFM usage for a riv nut gun is.

I use an air bubble at 120 psi to power an air staple gun and it lasts for a long time, but YCFMMV.

To fit a riv nut hand tool? You are referring to an individual riv nut / nut sert size installation tool?

Why not just use a battery impact screw driver?