Riv-nut Tool ?

[Guest gazza1591]

Just getting the last few tools together ready for the kit order hopefully next weekend at stafford show.

 

am just wondering if you need to have a rive-nut tool or not ?

 

thanks

[Snapperpaul]

I bought a rivnut tool late in the build, wish I had bought it earlier.

The cheap tools are only good enough for ally rivnuts.

The smaller mandrills are very fragile I have broken a couple.

A friend has a professional riv nut tool much more substantial but you need big muscles to work it.

The make ends meet ruvnut tool looks a great bit of kit, expensive but easier to use and does not put the sideways loads on the mandrils that the standard ones do.

[philshelton]

you can manage with out! one but when you get one you wonder how you managed without it.

[MarkBzero]

Fantastic tool would highly reccommend you buy a decent quality tool that is capable of doing stainless steel rivnuts. As above you can live without it but it will make your life easier, plus you can sell it on after the build.

All the best with the build.

Regards

Mark

[Guest gazza1591]

can anyone recommend one then ? dont want to spend hundreds if i can help it mind

[Guest MartinP]

can anyone recommend one then ? dont want to spend hundreds if i can help it mind

 

I have the Rivnut tool and as above, the smaller mandrels are a bit delicate.

 

The new design uses cap head pins so the replacement parts are pennies.

 

I would recommend them, but have no experience with other makes.

 

Martin