today on Steve Robb reviews I've added a new tool to the workshop and it's one of these punches it's
a punch on one side a flange tool on the other this one here is three sixteenths actually it's
pecked out at five mil so let's take a look at it and let's see what I'm going to use it for because
I'm not going to tell you right now but in the future I'm going to use this on a project that
has only ever been welded before and I'm going to use rivets and this is the main idea behind
me buying this tool is so that I can put in a lot of rivets without drilling a lot of holes
let's go over to the bench let's take a look at it oh here we go right here for a lot of you you've
never seen a tool like this before and if you take a look ray in here you can see where there
is a punch and a hole and on the other side you can see how this has a step up here well that's
a flange tool I'm going to demonstrate that in a minute but the whole idea behind this is to get
that punch to make a hole to use these 3/16 rivets now this particular one says that it'll go through
a 14 gauge sheet metal I'm gonna demonstrate it on thinner I'm using 16 gauge I don't think I'd ever
use 14 in the first place but let's take a look and let's see how it works well the first thing
I would say is a lot of people don't know what their air pressure is they go over to their air
compressor they took a look at the reading and what's at the end of your 50 foot hose is not
the same reading so get yourself one of these just a small little cheap pressure gauge and
find out what the actual pressure is at the end because you can't expect air operated tool to
perform when it's supposed to call for 90 psi and at the end of this hose was not 90 but my
gauge on my air compressor showed 90 so you have to actually check get one of these they're very
cheap make it yourself I think this total costs all together is like six bucks for one of these
so let's get to it right now okay so there we go right there 16-gauge just put the tool on here
pull the trigger now you see that hole like that was like went through like nothing and
that's 16 gauge so the whole idea behind this is the rivet now it's just barely dragging on
that hole to go in and that's exactly what I wanted okay so let's take a look at this
being used as a flange tool okay so let's take a look at the tool here and you can definitely see
there how there's an offset and you could see how it actually goes along and then drops so
let's just put the tool in here and as you go along you could see it's making a nice offset
flange I hope you can see that but I will show you a better picture of it and this is when you
want to overlap another piece of metal on here so it's the same thickness well what do I think
about this tool I tell you something that was the first time I tried it I have never tried
this tool before until I showed you and I think it's just awesome I decided to go for the 5 mil
punch rather than the 3/16 because 5 mil is just a hair bigger than 3/16 and that's what I wanted
because so many times if all of you have ever tried put rivets in if you try to put a 3/16
rivet in into exactly a 3/16 hole many times it's going to bind going in and this goes in perfectly
so let's take a look at the plates here and you can obviously tell they are very nice clean holes
there's no burrs on the backside or anything and the flange tool I don't know if that's going to
come in good or not but you can definitely see right there how it makes a nice flange so you
can put two pieces over top of each other like that and what you'd normally do is you'd put a
whole bunch of holes here first make your flange put this over top and then spot weld inside them
holes if you wanted to or rivet so I hope you like this and stay tuned for the future it's gonna be
a little ways off but I think it's gonna be like a winter project where I'm gonna build something
that's never been done before out of rivets you've only ever seen this product welded so thanks for
joining me here today and I hope you like this a little bit of a review on this hole punch flanger
and you know this was only 60 bucks so I mean for most people yeah it's a great addition to
the shop these guys come back again if you ever seen this channel before well you're welcome to
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you