Nutsert/rivnut tool
Submitted by Marineboy on Sat, 2014-10-18 11:22
does any body on here by chance have a tool for installing nutserts I could borrow.
The size mandrel it needs to have is m5.
Preferably NOR but beggars can't be choosers.
Thanks.
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sea-kem
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You might be able to hire
You might be able to hire one. The pnuematic one's are awesome but really need to know how to use them. I know there are manual one's too.
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Marineboy
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Hire
kennards never even heard of nutserts hmmmmm
just chasing a manual one look a bit like a pop rivet gun.
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Jayden20
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got a manual one at work you
got a manual one at work you could borrow ....will have to check if we have the m5 thread for it though
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Jayden20
thanks jayden20 let me know how you go.
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will do mate
will do mate
keg
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you can buy them
from ebay for about $60 with a range of different size thread inserts
Marineboy
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Keg
yea I seen them on eBay but it's a once only use and I only need to install 12.
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iana
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If I was going to to that job
If I was going to to that job, I'd get a hi-tensile bolt (threaded all the way to the head) and a plain nut. Then find a sleeve or bush with a 5mm hole that the bolt would pass through, and the outside dia as big as the flange of the riv-nut.
Screw the nut all the way onto the bolt, next slide the sleeve on, and then screw the riv-nut onto the bolt, making sure the bolt passes a little way through the riv-nut. The thread should be lubricated where the nut will wind down.
Insert the riv-nut in the hole, hold the head of the bolt with a spanner to stop it from turning as well as holding it firm in the hole, wind the nut down with a spanner. This should collapse the riv-nut and set it in place.
In the earlier years, riv-nuts had a tang moulded into the flange. We used another tool to notch out a slot that the tang fitted into to stop it from turning when in use.
Marineboy
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iana
thanks for that.
Found a tool.
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ph3var
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Maybe this might help
I have never seen these before but found this
http://www.fjr1300.info/howto/rivnut-tool.html
Jayden20
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sorry mate...aprentice used
sorry mate...aprentice used the nutsert gun last.....to say its stuffed would be an understatement
Jayden20
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sorry mate...aprentice used
sorry mate...aprentice used the nutsert gun last.....to say its stuffed would be an understatement
Marineboy
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Thanks
thanks for your effort Jayden.
Someone else offered one too so I will grab that.
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Jayden20
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no worries all the best with
no worries all the best with whatever your doing hahaha....I hate nutserts
sea-kem
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Lol as I say they can be a
Lol as I say they can be a prick to use.
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iana
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What is this project that
What is this project that requires blind fasteners? You will curse if and when the time comes to removing the screws and the riv-nuts turn. Might be just as easy to use aluminium pop rivets and drill them out each time.
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Project
Yes, I think with this many posts and 500 + reads, we should get a full report on project. If not much guts to it, just tell a few white lies and make it an interesting read.
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Have you read emails Ian?
Have you read emails Ian?
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