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Danozeman

posted on 1/3/05 at 10:35 PM Reply With Quote
Rivnut tools

I can get one of thse folding sealy things which is a riveter and a rivnuter for 61 quid new. Is this a good price and are they any good??

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[Edited on 1/3/05 by Danozeman]





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RogerM

posted on 1/3/05 at 11:15 PM Reply With Quote
Exactly the same one as I have had for about 8 years. Works great (so long as you have room to get the handles in, even folded they are long!).

Far better than the normal type that look like a rivet tool, they just fail really fast.

£61, could well be. Mine was about £45 8 years ago.

My advice would be that you should get a "rotating head" rivet gun too, much easier to get into tight sapces for setting pop rivets and should be under £10 at a show.

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blockhead_rich

posted on 2/3/05 at 09:11 AM Reply With Quote
Cheapest one I've found on the net is this;

http://www.lawson-his.co.uk/scripts/details.php?cat=Riveters&product=25107

Unless you know different of course.....
Rich

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DaveFJ

posted on 2/3/05 at 10:12 AM Reply With Quote
paid £55 at stoneliegh last year for mine - best money I have spent so far - absolutely excellent tool.

I 'over did it' the other night whilst setting a 4mm stainless steel rivnut and instead of snapping the mandrel (as so often happens with the cheap tools) it actually pulled the entire thread out of the rivnut! no damage to the tool whatsoever - by the way it was completely my fault - I got carried away

Buy it - you wont regret it



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Danozeman

posted on 2/3/05 at 10:07 PM Reply With Quote
I think i will. Me wife said shed get it as a b day prezzie for me... The bloke that gave me that price is from lsuk he reckons its alot less than trade price.



[Edited on 2/3/05 by Danozeman]





Dan

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blockhead_rich

posted on 2/3/05 at 10:27 PM Reply With Quote
My experience is that the small tool enables you to insert Rivnuts into tiny places... if you get my drift. Most only go upto M6.

Rich

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JohnN

posted on 2/3/05 at 11:53 PM Reply With Quote
Zygologys Z100 hand tool was £27 and is a very well made piece of kit. I've installed quite a few M8 stainlees nutserts using it with no problems at all.

http://www.zygology.com/products/tools.asp?category=threaded%20inserts

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ned

posted on 3/3/05 at 10:07 AM Reply With Quote
I have the spirulux one, paid £47 at local tool shop iirc. nice bit of kit. ordered a load of different size rivnuts from zygology. Bought that one because it went up to a larger size than some of the other i'd seen.

Ned.





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