Hand rivet squeezer

[Esser]

The stainless rivets are more difficult but for how few there are, get two pipes a foot long and increase your leverage.

[southwind32]

I should have clarified my message, I'm talking about solid rivets, not pop rivets. Sorry.
Brian

[efwd]

OK, I have those also. Luv em. Ive been squeezing rivets on my wing tip mounts/nutplates. Im not sure how your going to do it without a squeezer. I bet people are modifying vice grips and getting away with it since there arent many solid rivets. The tool is easy to use. Lots of power behind the handles. Very stable because with the small rivets you aren't straining whatsoever.
Eddie

[Av8r_Sed]

I did all my solid rivets with a hammer, punch and bucking bar of some sort. It was pretty easy for the relatively few rivets I had to do.

[Esser]

I borrowed my buddies for the roughly 100 total solid rivers on the project. Wing tip nut plates, camlocks and boot cowl I think is all. Easy to squeeze.

[Cherrybark]

For solid rivets, I bought a cheap Harbor Freight vice grip and used a bench grinder to smooth the face of the pliers. I'll bet a few strokes of a file would do the job almost as quickly.

[HighWing]

I have a solid rivet squeezer, in fact two. One I inherited after I finished helping the guy build the Lancair IV. I am a tinkered and use them all the time. The last time putting a splash guard in the water tank of low volume toilet. One of them has the longer jaws for greater reach. I find the occasional challenge when one of the hardened type rivets shows up in a batch of the more commonly used soft ones - can be a bit of a challenge.