with 4 mm and 5 mm mandrels. ebay is coming in at about £ 50.

(and yes, I know about the locost method of using bolt thank you very much - it is t he tool I am enquiring about.)

Don't know about the cost, but we got one from partco/unipart, might be worth a try. It seems to work ok and goes up to 8mm as I remember

I got one from CBS for not much money. Has worked fine for me so far..

I bought mine direct from the importer Bralo on 0121 520 6883 www.bralo.com. It's Spanish set not totally durable but did the jobs I needed to do.
Cheers, pewe

Grampian fasteners in Aberdeen (01224) 772777 do this one for £26 with various size inserts, the actual rivnuts are very cheap too.
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You can get the Laser one for around £20 ish.

Pat...

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You can get the Laser one for around £20 ish.

Pat...

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No tool required just a setscrew, a nut and a washer.

If you want to use Rivnuts that are almost flush with the surface of whatever they are fitted into, you will need to ensure you buy a setting tool that will cope with what I think are known as recessed head rivnuts.

The best place I have found for really good service and technical help is: http://www.prifast.co.uk/nutsert_tools.htm. I've just had a look at their site and they offer a good range of tools from not much to a lot.

One other thing to watch when you are buying rivnuts is to make sure you know what size you are buying. You can get metric rivnuts with either an Imperial or Metric body. For example, an M4 metric rivnut needs a 6mm hole, an M5 a 7mm hole and an M6 a 9mm hole. I cannot remember the sizes need by metric imperial rivnuts but they are slightly bigger. this is good news because, if you overdrill all is not lost because you can fit a metric Imperial in and it will be fine. So best to keep some of each. I can bore for England on the subject but hope this helps a bit.

John

Have a nose here
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/oakwood_data/pulling_rivnuts.htm

I have used, and broken, 3 "proper rivnut tools" (including a laser one)

I found them all shite to be honest.

I now use the tool made by MikeR's dad to the design on David Jenkins' (on this site) website.

This will set any rivnut, and is indestructible!!

here ya go:

david jenkins page on rivnut tool

ps, for the screw, use a 12.9 grade caphead

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Nearly right!

linky

oh I'm not up with all this high tech jiggery pokery david