I've got a pneumatic squeezer that I purchased from Avery Tools some 15-20 years ago. It's been several years since I've used it and a guy in our local RV club asked about it for riveting the spar on his Hummel Bird.
I pulled my pneumatic squeezer out of storage and found that the trigger is stuck full on. I've tried running some air tool oil in it and pressing even harder on the stick valve. You can hear the airflow change a little when you try to actuate the already open valve. I'm pretty sure it just needs to be actuated a couple times to clean up some gunk in the works. The actual squeezer mechanism itself seems to work fine since it clamps down and retracts fine when I connect and disconnect it from the air hose.
I'm trying to figure out if it's best to get at the valve through the air inlet or by removing the whole valve end from the body of the squeezer. The air inlet is a single part to remove, where the valve end would be several more screw to remove. I did find some purported links to diagrams and repair guides, but those links were from 5-10 years ago and all seemed to lead to abandoned web sites.
If all else fails, I'll just send it in to someone like Clear Air Tools or Atlantic Air Tools that was mentioned in another thread I found here on VAF.
I pulled my pneumatic squeezer out of storage and found that the trigger is stuck full on. I've tried running some air tool oil in it and pressing even harder on the stick valve. You can hear the airflow change a little when you try to actuate the already open valve. I'm pretty sure it just needs to be actuated a couple times to clean up some gunk in the works. The actual squeezer mechanism itself seems to work fine since it clamps down and retracts fine when I connect and disconnect it from the air hose.
I'm trying to figure out if it's best to get at the valve through the air inlet or by removing the whole valve end from the body of the squeezer. The air inlet is a single part to remove, where the valve end would be several more screw to remove. I did find some purported links to diagrams and repair guides, but those links were from 5-10 years ago and all seemed to lead to abandoned web sites.
If all else fails, I'll just send it in to someone like Clear Air Tools or Atlantic Air Tools that was mentioned in another thread I found here on VAF.