Will, not quite the answer you wanted.
Wonderful things rivet nuts (AKA clinch nuts or Rivnuts). I just
"discovered" them and am using them for the lid and base on the GS31b 2m
amplifier I am building.
Being mean I didn't want to buy a special rivet gun. According to the
car enthusiast web pages the cheap guns break very easily and an
industrial version isn't justified here for the limited number of
projects I make down in the shed. With a bit of experimentation and a
few wasted rivet nuts I found that if I drilled an interference fit
hole, tapped them in and then squeezed them up in a vice I got a great
solid fit..
Using M4 aluminium rivet nuts, between 1/4 and 1/3 of a squeeze with a
3" bench vice was just the right pressure. I wouldn't recommend this for
any metalwork for a customer, but for home amps once you get the hang of
it, it's a very quick way to fit blind fasteners.
I bought mine from an ebay supplier here in the UK so sorry, can't help
with the supply at your end Will.
73 Paul G4DCV
Will Matney wrote:
> All,
>
> Does anyone know a good supplier to buy rivet-nuts? These like the Atlas
> brand Spin-Tite rivet-nuts that use a tool similar to a pop-rivet gun to
> install. Either surplus or new will do, but I need to find a vendor who will
> sell in 100-500 quantity at a time. I'm starting to get my shop up and
> running doing some aluminum cabinets, etc, and want to use these as the
> fasteners. Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Will
>
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