Thread: Nutserts/Rivnuts without the tool. (pics)

So my first experience with Rivnuts was fitting light guards to a Freelander... I vowed never again to use the homemade bolt and nut after many hours of fiddling.... so up comes another job again on the D3 now to fit the Raised Air Intake... I had a tool this time but the tool was faulty so came back to this thread to remind me how to do it... Fitted 3 rivnuts today and this method worked like a dream. Saying that if I was planning on doing anymore or had to do the job again I would try a different tool.

I particularly liked the cordless drill adaptor from these guys Rivets Rivnuts & Tooling - Dafra - Melbourne (03) 9555 6872

Rich.

Originally Posted by harry

thanks bushranger, i totally agree with you,
i work in the aircraft game and the real tool is the only jigger to use,
the screw down bolt/nut way of setting a rivnut is inviting disaster.
it may be ok to frig around for hours doing it this way, but it doesn't work in the real world.
for those that do wish to experience the difficult way or buy the real tools,
i do suggest you spend some time with the tools you are using and some sacrificial test rivnuts and various thicknesses of ally or tin to work out how hard to 'set' the rivnut.
and if the holes aren't blind, rivet an anchor nut on.

Harry, do you have a brand or model number of Rivnut tool you use?

I think mine is called the nutter, but it is way old, we use goodyear tools in the real world.
look on 'aircraft spruce and speciality' and you will find them there.
L-6000 is a good tool.

Thanks Harry, I had seen one of those on the net, but was not sure if they would pull up the steel Rivnuts.

On the insertes themselves, Carrol Smith noted he liked Rivnuts, but had no luck with nutserts.

I take it in this day and age, if I go to my local fastener supplier, I will just get cheap imported nutserts. For good quality I take it I have to go to a mob like th one you linked?

As I work in Melbourne CBD I go to Keables, they have the rivenut tools and also the rivenuts. Fastener specialists most places should be able to provide you the tool and fasteners.

you may have to go to nutserts for larger diameters, rivnits run out at about 1/4 inch
and yes, rivnuts generally only available from aircraft supplies

Originally Posted by slug_burner

As I work in Melbourne CBD I go to Keables, they have the rivenut tools and also the rivenuts. Fastener specialists most places should be able to provide you the tool and fasteners.

Not likely here on the Gold Coast

Originally Posted by uninformed

Not likely here on the Gold Coast

Such pessimism, this catalog extract has the hand tools and the nutsert range they provide. They are at Molendinar, is that Gold Coast region? Yep Meredith Distribution, Unit 1/15 Mercantile Court Molendinar, Queensland