Fastening Metal Is Easy With Pop Rivet Guns
Pop rivet guns are used in a variety of applications where fastening metals without welding is required. From the fuselage of an airplane, to simple items like a semi-truck trailer all use some sort of pop rivet tool to join and fasten metal components. In the highly precise and technical sector of building aircrafts, pop rivet guns are used to make what are called “blind” rivets to join panels together. These panels have a very small tolerance for error, requiring a powerful tool such as the Taylor Pneumatic pop riveter to fasten them correctly.
Pop rivet guns are also a great tool to have around the house. They can be extremely useful for securing lock hardware and fittings on garage doors and just about anywhere else where a solid joint or fastener is needed. Air pop rivet tools are commonly used to repair the side of truck trailers, and many times cordless rivet guns are useful when there isn't an electrical outlet nearby, or in places a pneumatic hose won't reach. Along with other sheet metal tools, rivet guns have transformed the way aircrafts are made. Today they play such an integral part in aircraft assembly that it would be almost impossible to build aircrafts without them.
In the old days joining metal panels and parts for large industrial projects could only be accomplished by welding them together, or using large bulky heated steel rivets that required a lot of force making it costly and many times impractical, but with the invention of the pop rivet, even a small 3/16 rivet could easily hold up to 2000 pounds of force. It's no wonder that almost all aircraft tool supply companies carry rivet guns as a constant stock item. More modern pop rivet guns can easily fasten larger stainless steel or other strong rivets with a single hand held air driven rivet gun, placing them very close together for a surprisingly strong joint. In assembly lines less complex rivet guns are used to secure shovel handles, and even some children's toys. New technologies even have pop rivet gun tools that will not only drive and secure a rivet, but the tool will actually snip off the protruding end and remove any sharp ends or burrs in one click.
Newer rivet designs actually have a system that drives the rivet and secures it without the need to drill a hole into the metal or plastic that will be fastened. This technology is called self-piercing rivets. The real power of this riveting system is that it can join similar materials and completely different kinds without exerting stress on the material or weakening the joint. Pop rivet guns make joining and fastening metal, plastic, and other materials easier, and the end result being they add more strength to pieces being joined.
