On Sat, 16 Jun 2018 17:46:28 +0200, you wrote:
You can still buy the pop rivet nuts, but much more $$ than that.
You said they use an adapter, I have never seen that. Around here you
need to buy a dedicated rivet nut tool for around $100 (which looks
much like a slightly modified $20 pop rivet tool).
I always speculated that they are set just like a pop rivet, but with
a threaded rod instead of the discardable metal shank in a regular
rivet.
My plan was, should I ever need to set a rivet nut, that I would take
a hard screw and put that in the rivet, and pull on the screw from the
outside with a washer and a nut.
Do you have any opinion if that plan might succeed? I have been
curious about it for years.
It will, but the friction on the threads is likely to strip them if
you don't use a screw long enough to fully engage the nut. I'd also
worry about torque spinning the thing.
You should be able to find the tools on ali-baba, or the local
equivalent.
Harvey
ST
On Sat, Jun 16, 2018 at 5:40 PM, Michael A. Terrell
<mike.terrell@...> wrote:
They also made the rivnut,which is an internally threaded version of a pop rivet that used an adapter to set with a pop rivet tool. I used them in some projects. I wished that I had boght more of them, surplus. They were 50 cents/100 in USM boxes.
Michael A. Terrell
