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: [email protected] website at http://www.flysquirrel.net
