Riv-nut tool stage one

[malmac]

While it is quite inexpensive to purchase a riv-nut installation tool - but what fun would that be?

So today I started on making my own. The main thing I like about it is that I have one - just used scraps laying around - so no additional costs.

Also pleased with the 20mm x 1mm pitch I have used to give me better mechanical advantage when installing the steel riv-nuts.

Really just the adapters for the various thread sizes and the nozzles to suit.

Mal

 

[Z2V]

Malmac
While I already have three or four rivnut tools I really like your idea. I’d like to make one of my own if you don’t mind. It looks like it makes it easier to hold the nut insert straight and true while setting it.

 

[Cooter Brown]

You are making this way more difficult than it need to be. I install riv nuts with a piece of flat bar with a hole in it, a screw with a few nuts on it, and an electric impact gun. This is how they did it at roush industries when I was working there

 

[magicniner]

I use the "Special Tool" for Nutserts described in Vauxhall's Bodywork Technical Manuals, a length of flat bar, lightly roughened on one side with an angle grinder, a length of threaded rod, greased washers, a nut and a spanner.
It hangs on a hook in the garage and has been doing it's job faultlessly for over 35 years

 

[Tozguy]

Cooter, linkie no workie.

Mal, very nice work, must have been fun to make and be a pleasure to use it.

Go figure, 72 years old and never heard of Riv-nuts (or forgot that I knew about them) so I looked them up.
http://www.aimfasteners.com/rivnut.html#.WrTNRWYZNAY

 

[ACHiPo]

New to me as well

 

[Bob Korves]

Note all the different styles in the link that tozguy supplied. I do not think that all types are pictured, and they are all quite different in usage and have multiple installation recommendations. If you want thread inserts, it pays to do your homework. That is just one supplier of many, making different products. Many of them can be installed with fairly simple shop made tooling.

 

[malmac]

You are making this way more difficult than it need to be. I install riv nuts with a piece of flat bar with a hole in it, a screw with a few nuts on it, and an electric impact gun. This is how they did it at roush industries when I was working there

Yeah I do realise that it is way complicated - but hey this way I get to play in the workshop, use my TIG welder, milling Machine and lathe - how much more fun can a boy have? Well keep it clean!!!!

 

[malmac]

Malmac
While I already have three or four rivnut tools I really like your idea. I’d like to make one of my own if you don’t mind. It looks like it makes it easier to hold the nut insert straight and true while setting it.

Well we will see how well it works when it is finished - that will be the acid test.

 

[roadie33]

There is nothing like making something for your own use.

I myself just bought one of these from HF and picked up some different sized inserts on Amazon.
https://www.harborfreight.com/45-piece-threaded-insert-riveter-kit-1210.html
Worked great. I spent more on the inserts than I did for the tool.
Used them when I put together my sand blast cabinet instead of the bolts and nuts that came with it.