[Closed] air rivet gun repair/recommendation

No idea about the part but I think toolstation sell air rivet guns.

I have a couple of ones from machine mart I bought for a job - must have put a couple of thousand rivets in with them over a week but not something I use regularly so can't comment on longevity beyond that

It seems to be the way of things with airtools that they are either unbranded/own brand stuff from diy outlets for about £50 or industry grade / production line quality and a £1000 a pop. But I don't think theres been any cheep airtool I've bought from the likes of Toolstation or Machine Mart that has been fundamentally bad - the all seem to work well enough.

Definitely one of the most useful air tools if you rivet , that’s a generic design , even Lidl Parkside are the same.
Anywhere you can get one will likely do the job.

Yeah, everyone seems to sell that exact same generic one. Machine Mart are best priced (£60) trouble is they’re only doing standard delivery of a week or so. Really balk at paying £100-120 for the exact same tool from someone else just for next day delivery!! Only brand (that I recognise!) name one I found was Bahco for about £400 🙄

Yep had 2 like that at work and then we bought a Beta one 1000's of rivets its still going great guns 🙂

1946T Air riveter

Parkside ones on ebay - might be close to you around £40

Parkside ones on ebay – might be close to you around £40

Good shout! There actually is one not a million miles from me, I have put finishing the job off till next week now tho so going to order one for delivery.

then we bought a Beta one

Again that looks VERY similar to the generic units, especially the Lidl/Parkside one. 🤔 I guess it's possible that it's the same design, but the components are made to a higher quality.