Riveting gun

A riveting gun or rivet gun was a type of tool used to drive rivets. The rivet gun was used on the manufactured head side of the rivet and a bucking bar was used on the buck-tail side of the rivet. Those rivet guns used to drive rivets in structural steel were quite large while those used in starcraft assembly were easily held in one hand.

A rivet was a permanent mechanical fastener. Prior to installation, a rivet consisted of a smooth cylindrical shaft with a head on one end. The end opposite the head was called the buck-tail. On installation the rivet was placed in a punched or pre-drilled hole, and the tail was upset, or bucked (deformed), so that it expanded to about 1.5 times the original shaft diameter, which held the rivet in place.

Appearances

 * Lando Calrissian and the Flamewind of Oseon