I know its a very simple question but I want to get it right!
So What rivnut gun do people use?
What types of rivnuts material/size?
Where to Use them all the bodywork?
How do they actually work and set them in place with a bolt (not sure)
Hopefully someone can shed some light on this!
Cheers guys
I've never got on with them. I used them for earthing points and two anchors to fix the nose cone and four anchors to fix the scuttle. They are
in essence a hollow bolt that a tool squeezes in a hole and makes tight.
My bodywork is fixed with rivets and sealant.
I recommend this device. Bought one, and have used it for anchoring trans tunnel cover, and some P-clips.
http://www.industrialfastenings.co.uk/installation-tool.html
I used a standard squeeze type rivnut tool. Works for me. You have to be a bit gentle but does the job....
Mine are 6mm aluminium. Used wherever I need to take a panel off, ie not bodywork but transmission tunnel etc.
And yes to industrial fastenings tool- it's too easy to strip the rivnut thread with the pliers type tool.
I bought this
one from ebay for £14 easy to use and alot cheaper than the other one i bought from machine mart at closer to £80!! In fact due to it
being so small it gets in those tight spaces HTH Greg
[Edited on 22/8/09 by corrado vr6]
I used this. £26 from Grampian Fasteners.
I have quite a few M5 and M6 rivnuts in the car, trans tunnel pannels, nose cone fixings, earthing points.
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I bought a cheap squeeze type tool and pretty much broke it within a few rivnuts, spesh the bigger ones and you can forget steel ones.
Have now bought one from memfast - make ends meet.
Not cheap but lifetime warranty and works very well.
Just got a new one like the blue one on a previous post. Reason for the new one is (stupidity) I was putting rivnuts on the inside of the prop tunnel to hold brake and fuel lines when I realized there was not enough room to undo the tool. Had to cut the threaded portion with a hack saw to get it out. (local tool shop thought the tool had broken and gave me a new one).
Can anybody with a MEM Fast tool
tell me what the mandrels are made of?
I have a standard set of rivnut pliers
and the ali mandrels bend / snap when
pulling in nuts in closed box section.
This appears to result from not being
able to clean off the burrs on the inside
of the box.
The nut starts to pull up and then tilts off
to one side as it cant find a flat landing
spot.
I ended up pulling the rivnuts in with a
steel bolt, a nut and 2 spanners.
s
You need a small hand tool (can't remember the name) fits in the hole after drilling and is turned on the backside of the work and removes drill
waist.
Any tool supply shop that deals with the aircraft industry will have one. It's the size of a pen with different cutters that fit in the end.
I have one of those de-burr gadgets.
It looks exactly like a pen..only with an "S" shaped metal blade instead of a
nib.
Maybe not just getting the technique right
when clearing out the hole.
s
quote:
Originally posted by corrado vr6
I bought this one from ebay for £14 easy to use and alot cheaper than the other one i bought from machine mart at closer to £80!! In fact due to it being so small it gets in those tight spaces HTH Greg
[Edited on 22/8/09 by corrado vr6]
The toll end you need has a flat end and the cutting edge is facing the handle, so as you turn the tool and pull towards you the back side of the hole is cleaned. hope that helps. If I ever figure out how to put photos on here I could take a picture of mine.