An electro-hydraulic riveting tool has a riveting working head and a pump body. The riveting head consists of a cylinder block, a hollow piston shaft, and a rear end cover. The cylinder block and the rear end cover jointly define a hydraulic cavity. Inside the cylinder body, a first oil passage and a second oil passage are formed. On the pump body, a third oil passage and a fourth oil passage are provided. A broken-nail guide tube is coupled to the riveting working head. The rear end of the broken-nail guide tube is in communication with a nail-collecting box. An adapter plate is sleeved around the outer wall of the broken-nail guide tube. The adapter plate contains an intermediate oil passage with a first and a second intermediate oil passage. An accommodation groove is formed in the adapter plate, and a shock-absorbing joint is housed within this groove.

A blind rivet setting tool including a clamping assembly for releasably clamping a nosepiece in place such that a blind rivet can bear against the nosepiece while the mandrel thereof is pulled; and a method of changing nosepieces using the clamping assembly.

A blind rivet setting tool including a nosepiece storage unit removably attached to a housing feature of the tool, wherein the nosepiece storage unit is configured to hold a plurality of nosepieces and defines a mandrel receiving opening which aligns with an exit opening of the tool such that the broken mandrel of a set rivet can be moved through the mandrel receiving opening in use; and method of using the nosepiece storage unit.

Tools and methods are disclosed for automatically capturing debris generated during rivet installation using an autoloading rivet gun. In some examples, an autoloading rivet installation device includes a hand-held rivet gun and an automatic loader which uses a first actuator having a shaft oriented parallel to a longitudinal plane of the rivet gun. A second actuator is coupled to the rivet gun and has an orientation orthogonal to the first actuator, such that the second actuator is configured to transition a magnet laterally between a plurality of positions relative to the longitudinal plane to capture ferromagnetic debris. The magnet may, for example, be disposed on a load arm of the loader, and the second actuator may be configured to translate the loader's first actuator from side to side.