Rivet Setter From Ebay?

[meagain]

What about the set the guy used in my link above? Would that work? He seemed happy with it - IDK

[Sylvia]

That's not the same machine. It's one he bought off of ebay, probably an older one. I know for a fact that the Tandy tubes he's using do not fit... because I tried.

[RavenAus]

I received my dies for the line 20, line 24 and 8mm rivets today :D. It's an absolute joy to be able to set snaps straight off without worrying about the cap suddenly being at a weird angle or just not setting right at all because the dratted thing had shifted just as I hit the setter.

Tried them all out and they are fantastic. Never want to manually set another snap again!

[Sylvia]

Tried them all out and they are fantastic. Never want to manually set another snap again!

I totally agree. So much more fun. When I first got mine I sat down with several "bracelets" and set snaps for 20 mins. It probably would have taken less time if my leather wasn't slightly too thick requiring me to skive a bit first. But I got 25 of the things done in no time.... even with skiving and manually punching holes. Life is good.

[billybopp]

No doubt, if you do any appreciable number of rivets or snaps one o' these gadgets is money well spent. I figure mine may have paid for itself in messed up rivets and snaps .. Even more in terms of the time saved!!

Bill

Edited August 25, 2014 by billybopp

[RavenAus]

I tried the rivet setter with my usual 8mm rivet through a piece of 2.5mm scrap veg. There was about 5mm sticking out the top. It still set perfectly, something you couldn't do with a hand setter

[meagain]

OK OK - I'm going to get this. My ONLY issue is I wish it didn't have threads. But I'm seeing dies on Ebay that I believe will go with it.

Well I have a question for you all. I want to do something with impressing a round hole. Not going through but just pushed in a bit. I want to make a round indent to set a Swarovski Flatback crystal so it's recessed into the leather a bit vs. sitting on top. This press should allow me to make the same depth throughout the item. Would anyone have an idea what I could use for such a thing in this press? I'm fearing I won't be able to do it - whereas with the Tandy, I could put an oddball tool in there and cinch it down.

[Sylvia]

Meagain: The threads for the screw in dies is 10-26. If you buy from ebay or elsewhere make sure the threads are that size and it should be ok. If they can't tell you the tread size/type... then don't buy unless you want to take the chance it won't fit, or they are willing to let you return them if they don't fit.

As for your crystal issue... I suppose you could use the piercing dies for that but not use the die for the bottom in that set, use the rivet set bottom or one of the others... that would make your divot but then you would need to know how far to press and that would take practice.

[meagain]

Sylvia - what do you mean exactly by 'piercing die' I think I'd like a perfect round impression that's maybe 4mm. 5mm max. A perfect circle with flat bottom Else if I could make a circle impression then use another tool to flatten the bottom out of it. But that's tricky and work. But I'm not sure what a piercing die is.

[Sylvia]

Meagain: A Piercing die pokes a hole (as in piercing an ear...) that's what David calls his hole dies. They are cone shaped and the bottom die has a hole in it so the top die can push the leather out the bottom. (not great for our leather cutting and hole needs) BUT If you didn't have the bottom die, it would just leave a funnel shaped depression. Scroll and/or click back to page 4 (I think) to the pictures I posted about the results of the hole punching test on thicker leather, you'll see the divot it makes on the front of the leather.