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Rivet squeeze tooling

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PMD

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I have a CP-251 squeezer that I picked up many years ago that has been laying in my air tools drawer. Buddy wants to do the cooling baffles on Pa38 and asked to borrow my aviation riveting gear so I agreed - but realized I do not have any tooling for the squeezer. It uses 3/16" shank rivet sets, but the anvils are 1.04" open and 0.090" closed, so not going to work with 1/4" or so of sets in place. I can get those pieces from Aircraft Spruce, in stock in Canada, but what about some kind of spacer to allow them to close on a short rivet????? I guess I could just make some, but can not imagine there not being some place that sells the correct parts.

What's the answer?
 
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