Thread: RivNuts - Brilliant

Originally Posted by spudboy

Never used a RivNut before today, but I can see I'll be using them a lot in the future because they are a brilliant solution to putting a nut into a sheet of metal. I had to use them to fit my new Mantec snorkel on the 110.

In 30 seconds you have a properly threaded, strong mounting point even on thin metal.

Am sure they have been around for ages...... and I am just not up to speed with these things

Yes, fantastic aren't they. You can get stainless and aluminium too.

I used them a lot when making my kit car, great idea

I used a couple for the pillar mounts of my snorkel. I think they are fantastic.

They're an essential part of my toolkit...

Right behind the gaffa tape & cable ties.

M

dont forget to try nutserts and speed nuts...

A nutsert is essentially the same thing as a riv nut and a speed nut you set by hand and the bolt that your putting in it is the one that pulls it in hard.

The speed nut wins in my book as its easier to put in in the field and doesnt require a perfect hole to work.

There are threaded pop rivets also. Two variants, a threaded hole and a threaded stud. Readily available from fastener suppliers. King Klick and Marston both do them. Dead easy to use.

They're probably great when new, but they become corrupted with time... Thirty-year-old rivnuts are the spawn of Satan in my book. (Spoken from bitter experience.)

Dan.
69 2A 88" pet4, 68 2B FC pet6.

What do you mean by corrupted? Do they rust out or something?