I bought a rivet gun off ebay (thank you, Gunner!)
It is supposed to be able to handle up to 1/4" rivets. It came with 5 rivet sets, "reconditioned":
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The gun seems to be functioning fine with the regular sets, however, I had great difficulty fitting the retainer spring into the grove of the brass set and I cannot fit the spring in the groove of the flush rivet set at all:
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I assume that one cannot use the gun with the flush rivet set safely in this condition. I do not want to force the spring as it will not hold the regular sets. Does anyone know a trick apart from getting another spring and opening it just for the flush rivet set?
All the flush rivet sets I looked at other sites have shank arrangement much more like the regular rivet sets.
BTW would anyone recommend getting a beehive type of the retainer spring over the quick change one that came with this gun? I guess I could then open this one up to accept the flush rivet set.
Michael Koblic, Campbell River, BC