Abstract: A nose assembly structured to be mounted to an actuator of the type having a base and a translatable piston. The nose assembly being structured to be cooperable with a swaged fastener by grippingly engaging a collar swaged to a pin. The nose assembly being structured to cut the collar to facilitate its removal from the pin. The nose assembly has a sleeve with a distal end and a proximal end, one or more chuck jaws located in the interior of the sleeve; and one or more cutting blades. When the collar of the fastener is received into the sleeve, the chuck jaws may engage the collar and hold the collar in place when the collar is received into the sleeve and the cutting blades may cuttingly engage the collar along a cutting direction generally parallel with an axis of the fastener.

Abstract: An improved fastener removal apparatus is configured to remove a swaged fastener of the type having an elongated threaded pin and a collar, with the collar being swaged to the pin. The fastener removal apparatus includes a nose assembly that can be mounted to an actuator of the type having a base and a translatable piston. The nose assembly includes a threaded thimble and a cutting anvil that are translatable with respect to one another. The threaded thimble is threadably connectable with the pin. The cutting anvil includes a number blades that cuttingly engage the swaged collar when the thimble is connected with the pin and translated with respect to the cuffing anvil.

Abstract: An improved fastener removal apparatus is configured to remove a swaged fastener of the type having an elongated threaded pin and a collar, with the collar being swaged to the pin. The fastener removal apparatus includes a nose assembly that can be mounted to an actuator of the type having a base and a translatable piston. The nose assembly includes a threaded thimble and a cutting anvil that are translatable with respect to one another. The threaded thimble is threadably connectable with the pin. The cutting anvil includes a number blades that cuttingly engage the swaged collar when the thimble is connected with the pin and translated with respect to the cutting anvil.

Abstract: An apparatus for field testing anemometers which utilizes an uncalibrated industrial hand blower powered by a constant pre-determined voltage is shown and described.A method of calibration against a standard anemometer and a method of field testing anemometers by use of an apparatus using an industrial hand blower are described.