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New pneumatic setting tool from Bollhoff Fastenings
Bollhoff Fastenings has introduced a new pneumatic setting tool to a market where many millions of blind rivet nuts are being used to place a reinforced thread into sheet metals, profiles and hollow sections. Using automatic forcecontrol when ‘pulling-up’ the fastener from one side of the workpiece, the new design employs a pressure sensitivity on the tool stoke in order to ensure a totally consistent setting, even when faced with a variable material thickness.
The hand-held P2007 is operated by a single trigger movement and engineered for speed, reliability and ergonomic use.
Once set-up for a given thread diameter, within an M3-M10 overall capacity, the installer can set as many as fifteen RIVNUT blind rivet nuts in a minute.
Powerful performance is shown by an ability to set up to M10 stainless steel with 17kN of force. With its ‘twist-toset’, colour-coded pressure regulator, changing the P2007 to set a different diameter blind rivet nut is easy: just wind the adjuster to the appropriate colour band. An auto-mount feature senses contact with the end of the mandrel and spins the rivet nut up against the anvil.
On setting, the operator simply maintains pressure on the trigger throughout the cycle to achieve totally consistent results.
All that’s required is an air supply of 5 to 7bar pressure, with each cycle using 8 litres of air. The air supply can be connected to either side of tool.