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Cheap tools are sometimes handy

cranetruck

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Needed a total of six pop rivets replaced and the right tool would have cost over $100, ebay to the rescue, Chinese riveting tool for about $20 plus shipping, even included the right rivets. Probable won't need it again for years....
 

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Jake0147

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I have one of those I got for one car needing a window regulator replaced. It put in three rivets then, and probably a zillion of the molly bolt rivets that hold license plate brackets to plastic bumbers while I was at the olds/pontiac/cadillac garage. I'd like to have bought a good one but a hundred bucks wouldn't touch the "good" one I could get back then, at that time I couldn't find what I'd call an "intermediate" one for a hundred bucks, so what are you gonna do...
 

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That's the advantage to "Harbor Freight" tools. Use it once, throw it in the tool box, if you use it again, you're ahead of the game.

Who's the handsome fellow in the picture, Bjorn? :D
 
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