As usual, Draper tools do what they are made for Item was in stock and I was in and out with my tool in my hand within 5 minutes
The rotating head is certainly a very useful feature. This is the third riveter I have had over the years and it certainly gets into places my other conventional fixed head guns couldn't. So that's a plus. On the downside, the handles are not as strong as my others. For the largest rivets I have sometimes used a bit of pipe to extend the handles and thus leverage - I wouldn't dare doing that with this one.
Had a hard to reach fitting and this with the swivel made it so easy job was done in seconds.
Customer was so impressed he had to have a try
For me, purchasing tools and consumables from ToolStation is both competitive and convenient. The riveter seems to be robust and well made but perhaps not quite so good on the 4.8mm rivet size. On two out of five rivets, the stem snapped where the jaws held the rivet rather than lower down where they are supposed to break off within the rivet. Maybe the jaws are just a bit too aggressive when the riveter is new or maybe the unbranded rivets used are not the best! Haven't tried it on smaller sized rivets yet but expect it to be OK.
Took a while to get it breaking off the rivets as the rod wouldn’t snap off but now I’ve used it regularly it’s all working fine
Great for small pot rivet job, but the fact you swivel the head through 90 degrees means you can pretty much get a rivet where ever you want. Only downside I found was after you snap off the rivet, the shaft of the rivet remains in the gun until you poke through the next rivet. Just slows the reload time down a bit.
Yes a good wee gadget. Handy with the swivel head on it. A good visit, friendly helpful staff and excellent products
Bought for 4.5mm rivets as it says for up to 4.8mm rivets. No way way it would break the shank off unless it’s on the ground and you put all your weight on it, even then it struggled so no chance of doing it by hand working under a motorhome above your head.
I have other cheap riveters that also won’t do 4.5mm so I returned it.
Swivel head seemed like a good idea though
Does a good job as a rivet should do. Comfortable handle.
It's good quality, but needed to be disassembled and greased first before it worked properly. The different tips have the sizes marked on them but the size markings are very small and hard to read, so bare that in mind when selecting the correct one for the size of rivet you are using.
Another solid tool from draper no more riveting at weird angles
Work extremely well, especially good in hard to reach areas
Great item well made did the job as I needed it to be
Good item for diyer and more. Swivel head is great help for getting in the tight fiddly corners where I needed to be
End popped out after three rivets.
Inspection found inadequate material for threads.
Purchased this as old riveter would not fix 2mm x 8mm rivets for refixing company name tag onto refurbished light. Once home job completed in less than a minute! Right tool for the job makes it so much easier with nice clean finish.
After trying other makes without success I was able to install two hinges in a very confined space with this tool, it works extremely well and appears to be well built
Works as expected. Weirdly the rivets fit the head size down for each rivet though.
Does tend to swivel around when you don’t want it too
Bad design did not work properly . I should of read reviews before buying
