Astro Pneumatic Tool PR14 Riveter Review

This worked great for me but after only one project (well 90% of the project complete) I had to take it apart and clean/adjust it to keep it from sticking and rivets from getting stuck. A pole got stuck and I had to disassemble it to get it out. The rest is very good. Each rivet took at least 2 pulls to break with the required air between 90 and 120psi. I stayed closer to 100-105 since I was using softer woods. The issue of the stem getting stuck and having to take it apart to clean everything…

The bottom cover was very difficult to remove. Clamp firmly in a vise, attach the provided wrench and hit firmly with a 4 pound hammer. The only way to take cover to move. Standard thread direction. Added some hydraulic oil and started using it. I installed about 70 stainless steel rivets in the interior bottom and deck of my aluminum boat. This thing is amazing! I know they say you can't mix aluminum and stainless steel, but every aluminum rivet I've used just failed, so I didn't have a…

I had a project to install nearly 200 1/8" x 1/2" steel rivets. Most of this work was at the very top end of my reach. A manual rivet gun would be almost impossible to use. This thing worked right out of the box. Unlike some of the cheaper versions, this version did not require hydraulic oil to be added prior to use. All I had to do was screw in a quick coupler, put a few drops of tool oil on it, and voila. Because the rivets were so long I had to turn the tool twice on each rivet, nothing to…