Irish Rover
Member Since: 02 Jul 2009
Location: Solihull
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Anyone got a rivnut tool I can borrow for a couple of days so that I can fit my recently acquired rear lamp guards? I already have a "proper" one but the mandrel is for imperial rivnuts and I need to install 5/6mm nuts. I want to do it properly so I'm not prepared to just use self tappers.
I live in Solihull so local would be handy but I will meet any reasonable costs involved.
Gerry
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 12th Sep 2010 6:06 pm |
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MacLeod 313
Member Since: 18 Apr 2008
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I have one, and some RivNuts I can post to you on tues/Wednesday. Already on my route to get into postition at work and currently on Tacho break, then heading to Belper/Derby (TFC land).
Its a cheapy RivNut tool, but Wex's link does brill too
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| 12th Sep 2010 8:48 pm |
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Irish Rover
Member Since: 02 Jul 2009
Location: Solihull
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Hi Wex
I'm getting a "Page cannot be found" error on your link but have googled and found lots of other examples so thanks for the steer but I think I'll take Macleod up on his offer.
Gerry
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| 12th Sep 2010 11:17 pm |
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Irish Rover
Member Since: 02 Jul 2009
Location: Solihull
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Hi Macleod
Thanks for the offer. The fitting instructions say I need a 7mm drill - which I've got - but only 4 rivnuts are supplied so I don't get a chance to practice. If you've got a couple of spares I'd appreciate them. I will pm you my address and I'd be grateful if you could drop it in the post for me.
Many thanks
Gerry
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| 12th Sep 2010 11:22 pm |
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MacLeod 313
Member Since: 18 Apr 2008
Location: away
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IR, just picked the message up on iphone, I still aint home (the beauty of being a Stobart Driver) and probably be nighting out this week so the planner says.
Can it hold and I will dispatch it on Saturday with some spare RivNuts. No problem supplying some more. If I ring the SWMBO to find it in the shed you will probably end up with Garden Shears 
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| 14th Sep 2010 8:40 pm |
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Navigator
Member Since: 17 Mar 2010
Location: Stay at Home. One of the lives you save could be your own.
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You can fit a Rivnut with a bolt, a nut and two spanners. I'd been doing them like that for years before I discovered there was a tool.! A vaccine does not stop you catching a virus, or passing it on, or getting ill from it, really ill. It does reduce the likelyhood of you dying when really, really ill. Stay Alive - KEEP AWAY FROM PEOPLE.
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| 14th Sep 2010 8:42 pm |
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Wex
Member Since: 16 Apr 2007
Location: Knackeragua
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Irish Rover wrote:Hi Wex
I'm getting a "Page cannot be found" error on your link but have googled and found lots of other examples so thanks for the steer but I think I'll take Macleod up on his offer.
Gerry
Sorry fella , I didn't check the link to see if the X-Eng. page was still live , but basically it was a pictorial on what Navigator has said above.
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| 14th Sep 2010 9:53 pm |
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Irish Rover
Member Since: 02 Jul 2009
Location: Solihull
Posts: 178
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Hi MacLeod
No problem waiting until the weekend for dispatch. Can't get to the job until next week at the earliest. Thanks again for the offer and the interest
Gerry
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| 15th Sep 2010 4:17 pm |
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Irish Rover
Member Since: 02 Jul 2009
Location: Solihull
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I know about the bolts and nuts and spanners but I'm not persuaded by my ability to do a good, neat job of it and not make a pigs ear of it.
Gerry
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| 15th Sep 2010 4:19 pm |
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PaulP
Member Since: 04 May 2007
Location: Barcelona
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I did the rivnuts on my RAI with a couple of spanners, a bolt and a nut....it's not very difficult, but I managed to snap two bolts (they were cheapy nuts/bolts).
I then found some stainless ones in the garage and it worked perfectly with no more issues  2006 Discovery 3 TDV6 SE Auto Buckingham Blue
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| 15th Sep 2010 4:22 pm |
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Navigator
Member Since: 17 Mar 2010
Location: Stay at Home. One of the lives you save could be your own.
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Navigator wrote:You can fit a Rivnut with a bolt, a nut and two spanners. I'd been doing them like that for years before I discovered there was a tool.!
I forgot the washer that goes between the nut and the Rivnut! Lets you do it with marzipan bolts. A vaccine does not stop you catching a virus, or passing it on, or getting ill from it, really ill. It does reduce the likelyhood of you dying when really, really ill. Stay Alive - KEEP AWAY FROM PEOPLE.
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| 15th Sep 2010 5:34 pm |
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gingercoastie
Member Since: 11 May 2010
Location: Cornwall
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Could someone explain the bolts, spanners and nuts method please. I have some rear light guards to fit and I am clueless mechanically.
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| 15th Sep 2010 8:55 pm |
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Navigator
Member Since: 17 Mar 2010
Location: Stay at Home. One of the lives you save could be your own.
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The Rivnut looks a bit like a pop-rivet but without a pin. It is threaded inside but only at the end opposite the flange.
To fit, take a bolt of correct thread for the rivnut and screw on an ordinary nut, add a washer, and then the rivnut.
With the rivnut in place in the hole, hold the bolt stationery with one spanner and turn the ordinary nut to screw it off the bolt. Once it pushes the washer against the material into which the rivnut has been placed, further turning will pull the threaded end of the rivnut in towards the far side of the material, causing it to bulge out like a pop-rivet.
Once the rivnut is tight in the hole, unscrew the nut slightly and the bolt can be unthreaded from the rivnut.
Common causes of failure are using wrong size of rivnut for the hole, and failure to tighten rivnut fully.
They can be fitted using a large pop-rivet gun (probably need an air powered one for all but smallest sizes) with a mandrel that screws into the rivnut to convert it into a sort of large pop-rivet. Of course, it does not "pop", the mandrel has to be unscrewed once the rivnut has expanded.
Small insertion tools cost about £10. A vaccine does not stop you catching a virus, or passing it on, or getting ill from it, really ill. It does reduce the likelyhood of you dying when really, really ill. Stay Alive - KEEP AWAY FROM PEOPLE.
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| 15th Sep 2010 11:31 pm |
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gingercoastie
Member Since: 11 May 2010
Location: Cornwall
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Thanks for the info
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| 16th Sep 2010 8:34 am |
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