Harbor Freight Pittsburgh Heavy Duty Hand Riveter Review and Demo ( 66422 )
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
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Today, we review and demo the Pittsburgh Heavy Duty Hand Riveter with Collection Bottle from Harbor Freight.
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I'd truly appreciate your opinion and any advice you have on my first rivet gun. I'm only looking for a rivet gun to make rocket stoves out of coffee cans and paint cans, and tent stoves out of sheetmetal and ammo boxes: which does have pretty thick steel. I really don't know which rivet gun would be best to start out with. Harbour Freight has a large selection. I really need some advice. Thanks for the video, it's helped me narrow down my choices. I'm subscribed and set to get all notifications.
Great gun, little bulky. But worth it
How about explaining how to use the tool after you dismantled it, explain the parts, reassemble and then show us how its done.... imagine that. In reality, this will never happen, Go China
Ok I’ll get right on that. Stay tuned.
-When riveting tight spots that don't have room for the head, stack washer or nuts on shank and apply tool to full stack. That will give you the clearance you need to use the tool (I had to do this when trying to rivet a handle on a case.
Great Tip!. Thanks
I’m having trouble picturing this. Can you give more description of how this works?
This tool is a re-branded Dorman 743-100 Rivet Gun, same gun, same quality? Doesn't matter if you buy if off Amazon (Dorman) or Harbor Freight (Pittsburgh) ?
Good to know
Thanks...got this at a storage unit sell off... it was just a toss in item for price negotiation. It was better than I thought... thanks for the video....can fix my leaf bagger nicely now.
Glad it helped. I use it all of the time. It’s quite useful.
I bought this at harbor freight & my first job was intalling about 50 -1/8" rivets. Occasionally one of the pins would not release after setting the rivet & it seemed internittent. On a few I had to disaasemble the head to get the 3 jaws to release the pin before I could continue. I just tried to set a 3/16" aluminum pin & of course the pin jammed again. I had to take the head off this time to get access to the 3 individual jaws before the pin would release. After re-assembly I cannot get the pin to fully set in the head, it goes in about 1 inch. Sighting through the hole, it looks like the jaws may not be fully retracted so my guess is I have not made the correct adjustments for changing to larger rivets. Could you please explain just how that process works as I cannot even get a grab onto the pin now. Thank you.
not sure, sounds like the mechanism isn't working right.
Same problem here
Sometimes you have to take the jaws out. Done that several times.
Looks like a decent rivet gun as long as you have the space, and it sure beats the smaller hand riveter. I like that bottle that catches the studs, nice. I was putting steel cleats on my Polaris Custom ll and it had the big steel rivets and a lot of them per cleat, so I purchased an air rivet gun on eBay and wow was that ever easy and you can get into tight spots too. I'm sure it cost a bit more, can't remember what it was, but it made short work of a tedious job. It was a cheapy China tool but it worked well.
I've seen those as well. I've always wanted one, but I never had a big enough job to warrant the purchase of it and I'm running out of space in my toolbox anyway. lol
I just bought that riveter and the 1/4” don’t fit in the hole (all the other ones do) how is that?
Did you change the tip?
Is there suppose to be another tip
In the box? We only have the different rivet sizes and a wrench
There should be 3 tips screwed into the handle.
We just seen them! we would have never guessed they were on the handles. Thanks! saved us a trip to the store
No problem. 😀
It works but has to be disassembled totally every time a mandrel breaks off in it which is extremely frequent. Poking them through only works some of the time.
I haven’t had that experience so far.
@@StreetersGarage I had it with the one hand version too. Brand of rivet doesn't matter. It seems common for all these riveters. I've even had to disassemble my air riveter. I think the air riveter is the fastest to fix.
Would you happen to know what size rivets are used for power window regulator/motor on cars?
I don’t. Probably 3/16
The video was good. . I used the gun for the first time. My gun didn't work the correct way based on your video. The gun didn't drop the pin in the plastic jar, so I took it apart. I saw the three pinchers inside the housing. The pin was really in there. I tugged on it with my pliers. After I reassembled the metal housing the pin disappears but it hasn't dopped into the plastic jar. I pumped the handles to see if any dropping occurred. It still wouldn't release the pin. Your video showed me how it should operate. Now I have no choice but to complain.
strange
Same problem here
I just purchased this and the first rivet I used got stuck in the unit and I had to take everything apart to get it out. Any suggestions
Return it.
You aren't the only one with this problem. Others here and me.
What length are the 1/4" diameter rivets that come with it?
1/2”
Can you use plastic pop rivite with this gun
Yes you can, you just need to use the supplied tip.
do you HAVE to use pop rivets?
What else would you use?
@@StreetersGarage I just used this tool - actually it was the Home Pro brand - worked awesome. Yeah I didn't know that pop rivets are blind rivets but not all blind rivets are pop rivets. thanks
Gotcha.
This is a great video thankyou
Thanks. Glad you liked it!
Thanks! Useful video :) Question... does anyone know if this would support threaded rivets?
not sure, it would be great of you could retrofit it
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Nope. Incorrect