Your experience with Harbor Freight rivet gun?

From looking at the forums, I know I *can* use the Harbor Freight rivet gun to build a Zenith, with the mods to the tip.

If you did use the HF gun for your build, I'd like to hear your experience with it - good, bad or ugly.

Thanks.

-Brian

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Permalink Reply by Russell Shimunek on August 25, 2015 at 12:43pm
How about recommendations for a harbor freight hand riveter?
Permalink Reply by Brent Cameron on August 25, 2015 at 3:57pm

I have one and another decent brand name one... haven't taken either out of the box except once for a couple of holes in the nose gear strut assembly that I couldn't get at with the pnuematic one.  I wouldn't waste a lot of money on this... get one that's small and can get into tight places and spend the money on the HF pneumatic one.

Permalink Reply by Normand Lambert on July 14, 2016 at 6:44am

Hi Brian,

I got 3 of those and they work very well. They were modified for the Zenith rivets and work their magic to form the dome

of the rivets when pulled. I got them for A4, A5 and A6 rivets; no need to change the head every time I change rivet size.

Regards.

Norm

Permalink Reply by Ed G Novak on July 19, 2016 at 7:22pm
When I first went to purchase one I looked all around and could hardly find one under $500 with the exception of harborfreight ($25 on sale) so I bought 2 incase one broke it wouldn't stop progress. Did my plane from crate to flying and never opened the second one.

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