I have the economy tool and it works fine. The advantage to the more expensive tool is that you can put in the rivnuts faster, not a consideration unless you are putting in 100 at a time.
Do stay away from the cheap combination rivnut/pop rivet tool that Harbor freight sells. It might be O.K. for the larger sizes, but I broke two of the 6-32 mandrels because they are not very good steel. The mandrel you can buy from Spruce and Wicks to go in a standard pop rivet tool is better steel and works O.K. A regular pop rivet gun has enough pull, but it is not as easy to control the exact pull like the economy tool that uses a wrench. I do recommend using the keyed rivnuts. Brian Kraut Engineering Alternatives, Inc. www.engalt.com -----Original Message----- From: krnet-boun...@mylist.net [mailto:krnet-boun...@mylist.net]On Behalf Of Oscar Zuniga Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 9:13 AM To: kr...@mylist.net Subject: KR> rivnut question Howdy, netters; I've never used 'rivnuts' and am looking at the info on pullers. Rivnuts are handy where you are working something with a blind side, such as if you need a threaded attachment to a tube and you can't access the other side to install a nutplate or nut. The "real" rivnut tool isn't cheap and neither is the "simplified" model, but there is a mandrel available such that you can install them using your regular pop rivet puller. My question is, does a regular pop rivet puller have enough backbone to pull a rivnut? If so, who would buy the $100+ tool in the first place? And it seems like it would be easy to strip out the threads if you put too much squeeze on it, but again- I've never installed one so I guess you just squeeze a little at a time. I don't have a lot of them to install, so I don't need a heavy-duty tool for the job. Oscar Zuniga San Antonio, TX mailto: taildr...@hotmail.com website at http://www.flysquirrel.net _______________________________________ Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html
