Punch/Flange tool

[es1758]

Looking to buy a Punch/Flange tool for body panels. Any brands you guys recommend or recommend to stay away from? Thank for the input

Looking at the sunex from tool topia

 

[Propwash]

Be sure you get one with a 5/16" punch, not 3/16". A lot of them are 3/16" and is a bit small for spot weld holes. With a sunex you'd want their 8MM punch/flange tool. I use an Ingersoll Rand gun and it works very well. Sunex, I haven't owned so I can't tell ya. Good luck

 

[northerndave]

I wore out an astro pneumatics brand (I think that's what it was) and replaced with.... I can't remember, might be another astro, possibly Viking?

The head broke off my first one, it's got about a 1/2" shank that draws down the moving portion of the tool head and she's junk now.

The "new" one is a few years old and still kicking.

Old one might have gotten dropped or something.

Come to think of it, I may have ordered mine through Htpweld.com

I think they might all be made by the same company and simply rebranded, they all look the same.

Like Will said, go with the bigger punch size.

 

[moparpoor]

I have the sunnex unit. Purchased in 98 and still going strong. Good piece used in the collision industry a lot!!

 

[Pistol Pete]

For a punch, I like the Roper-Whitney

http://www.amazon.com/ROPER-WHITNEY-Jr-PUNCH-Made/dp/B000PD1XL2