I have to install 4 rivnuts, size 11mm holding a M8 bolt.

 

This is a one time event, and such a tool will cost between 1500 and 2000 Baht, wich translates to 500 Baht each nut.

 

Bit over the top I would say, especially as I'll probably never need it again.

 

Is there anyone on this forum who happens to own such a tool and would be so kind to borrow it to me for a few hours?

 

 

 

Does this help?

 

How to insert rivnuts without the specialist tool.

 

 

Edited October 2, 20169 yr by chickenslegs

2 hours ago, chickenslegs said:

Does this help?

 

How to insert rivnuts without the specialist tool.

 

 

 

I watched a few youtubes demonstrating the same way of installing, but I can't get it to work.

 

I have to say that the other videos didn't make use of the handle,  which he uses to keep the rivnut pressed down, but in my case I also don't have somewhere where I can lock that handle under.

 

I'll try to fabricate such a handle and give it another try tomorrow, but in the mean time my request stands.

13 hours ago, chickenslegs said:

Does this help?

 

How to insert rivnuts without the specialist tool.

 

 

 

 

IT WORKED

 

What fool would spend 2K on  a tool when it can be done with a spanner

13 minutes ago, Anthony5 said:

What fool would spend 2K on  a tool when it can be done with a spanner

 

Those Bt.2000 ones are rubbish anyways, The ones I use here at work were $3,000 USD each and I have 4 of them.

32 minutes ago, Don Mega said:

 

Those Bt.2000 ones are rubbish anyways, The ones I use here at work were $3,000 USD each and I have 4 of them.

 

 

Oh great, I'm sure I can borrow one of them then.

On 10/3/2016 at 11:57 AM, Anthony5 said:

What fool would spend 2K on  a tool when it can be done with a spanner 

 

How long did it take you, and how much would it cost to install 1,000 per day at $100 per hour for labor?

 

That kind of fool...  

 

Even Don Mega's $3,000 tools look pretty good to someone who does it for a living.  Over and over again.

26 minutes ago, impulse said:

 

How long did it take you, and how much would it cost to install 1,000 per day at $100 per hour for labor?

 

That kind of fool...  

 

Even Don Mega's $3,000 tools look pretty good to someone who does it for a living.  Over and over again.

 

 

$100 per hour?

 

In which solar system do you live?

Please let me add my own 2 cents.

 

Before Chickenlegs posted the Youtube I had watched a few already, watched at least another 10 after his post, but they all failed. The first 2 nuts went in well using the method posted in his post, then it started failing for the last 2. I applied few other methods shown in Youtubes, which also all failed.

 

At the end I found one that worked faultlessly. I used a cordless drill for it, and it fitted the 2 last nuts with which I had been struggling for a few days already, in just a few seconds. It also further tightened the second of the first 2 nuts without a problem.