While single person riveting is common among the individual aircraft builder, far more rivets have been set by a two person team, one on the rivet gun and one handling a bucking bar. This team approach has heavily influenced the tools and methods used to set solid aluminum rivets in the aircraft construction industry, with far less emphasis put on developing tools for single person riveting.

There are many situations where the individual builder may find it advantageous to enlist the assistance of a helper when setting rivets, but for one reason or another it is difficult to obtain such help. This is where RivetAssist can help with the task of making a larger percentage of the solid rivets available for the single person builder in a more advantageous manner.