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Pop rivets are great. Get you out of all sorts of sheet-
metal or automotive trim crises.
But I rarely carry around a drill, pop-riveter and a bag of
rivets. .
So this thing, it looks like a couple of 4-color keener pens,
hinged together at one end. Packed up, they are folded
like a
jack-knife. In use, they unfold and lock at a right
angle. One side has a push drill (a drill chuck on a spiral
shaft, that turns when pushed on). The other side has a
pop-rivet chuck that pulls the rivet slowly when the handle
is turned. Somewhere in there, too , is a spot to stash a
few rivets.
Shapeways
http://www.shapeways.com/materials/
don't hold your breath [afinehowdoyoudo, Dec 10 2009]
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since the bit needn't be very long why not simply have a push drill with a stubby bit and a stubby little threaded driver? all the driver needs to be is a threaded anvil and a small folding arm to allow the user to apply torque. |
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[WcW].. thanks.. Stubby bit is good.. Not sure I
understand the part about the threaded
anvil/threaded driver.. |
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well you need to pull the anvil into the driver with twisting force but until the anvil is tight there's nothing to torque against thus the tiny handle to hold in your other hand. might be less of an issue with pop rivets. |
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Decent sized pop rivets require quite a lot of leverage.... could be a problem to use if the shafts are too short. Can they be telescopic? |
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just use the extra leverage of the drill to pull it slowly, really really hard. |
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Perhaps instead of using muscle strength, the gadget could be designed to work like a powder actuated nail gun? |
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To avoid needing to carry around a hammer to hit the thing with, it could set off the powder by means of a spring and a small internal hammer, similar to an automatic center punch. |
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Thus, when you need to make a hole, you pull out the powder powered hole punch, load in a .22 caliber charge, then push the point of the device against the surface to be pierced. When pushed in far enough, the spring propels the hammer to strike the charge, which causes the point to make a hole in whatever it's pushed against. |
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The riveting tool could be activated similarly, except that the powder charge is used for pulling instead of pushing. |
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Hurry up with this. I want one for christmas. |
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How about making the tip of the pop-rivet itself function as a drill? One tool rotates the rivet to drill a hole for it, then pulls on the shaft to detach. The sharp tip would be retracted by the act of pulling, to cover the sharp bit. |
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hmm.. I had in mind to use standard rivets.. don't
know of any drill-tipped ones. But still, that's a cool
idea. Likewise on the explosive-tip rivets - especially
handy for the McGyvers & 007's in our midst. |
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As for the hurrying up.. you'll be calling me Trusty
Slipnot when I post the CAD data on Shapeways for
you-all to print out in stainless steel (for a mere $10
per cc).. lol |
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