It also handles steel and stainless Rivnuts in any size you can get nuts and bolts for. Cheers to adding another tool/talent to your toolbox.Very limited experience here: I may have pulled a couple of thousand rivnuts over the last 35 years: an average of maybe one a week?īolt and nut works well and is cheap.

There are a lot of ways to get the job done and this is just one of them. See more pictures and details here: Part 4 – DIY Gas Tank Lift for Offroad Clearance on Vitara Tracker Here you can see the pieces bolted together. You can see the final appearance with everything bolted together is really clean. It is really quick to take apart with a battery powered impact. The top and all of the sides are quickly removable with nothing more than a 7/16″ socket and ratchet. Standard thread: Semi-finished product of my gas tank enclosure There are all kinds of metal types, thread types and sizes on the nuts themselves for whatever your project is: Aluminum, Steel, Stainless Steel, Metric, Standard, etc. This monster will do 1/2″ threaded holes 😮 Rivet Nut Types: I don’t have one of these… I’ll have to conjure up a future project that needs threads that large so I have an excuse to buy one. The downfall with the larger levers is that you can’t get the tool into tight spaces. I would imagine the larger levers make it easier to crimp the nuts. This second rivet nut tool is bigger and can do up to 3/8″ nutserts. It will do 8-32, 10-24, 10-32, 1/4-20, 5/16-18.īelow is a link to it and also another similar one I found on Amazon in case the Marson is out of your budget. It has a right angle to the head so it is good for tighter spaces. The Marson brand tool below is the exact same as the one I have. I actually just today ordered more rivnuts on Amazon and they were half the price of what I saw at NAPA Auto Parts. I got mine a LONG time ago at NAPA, but today I would just get one off Amazon (way cheaper). Here is the backside of a rivet nut after crimping. No sheetmetal deformation, painting, grinding, etc. With rivet nuts all you need is a single hole and enough room to get the tool in to crimp it. When working with auto body you often can’t get to the backside to weld on a nut even if you wanted to. Many times you can’t or don’t want to weld on the metal due to the possibility of warping, burning off paint, etc. Think of things like a removable cover or threaded holes to bolt on a hinge. When working with sheetmetal it is often that you need a captive nut to bolt together two pieces of metal. What is a RivetNut / Nutsert?Ī Rivet Nut or Nutsert is a threaded nut that gets crimped into a hole with a special tool similar to a rivet gun. You can literally build just about anything out of sheetmetal or thin tubing WITHOUT WELDING. I briefly dove into my rivetnut tool on my post Part 4 – DIY Gas Tank Lift for Offroad Clearance on Vitara Tracker but I don’t quite think I gave enough credit for how awesome these tools actually are. As of now there isn’t a single weld anywhere on it. This Rivet nut tool is one of them! I recently (almost) finished my fuel tank enclosure from 14 gauge sheetmetal that I assembled exclusively with rivetnuts. Januin FABRICATION KNOWLEDGE / TOOLS OF THE TRADE! tagged Aluminum / Carbon Steel / Crimp / Hand Riveter / Metric / Nutsert / Rivet Nut / Stainless / Standard / Thread Setter / Threadsert by PaulĮvery once in a while you find a tool that you think ‘wow, that job would have sucked without that tool’.

Doyle 10 rivet nut setter