Recommend Me A Decent Rivnut Tool

[Wendelspanswick]

I have a cheapy Rivnut tool that coped OK with aluminium M6 rivnuts but fell apart trying to set an M8 rivnut, again in aluminium.
Ideally what I am after should be able to cope with rivnuts in aluminium and stainless steel up to M8, maybe M10?
What have you got?

 

[Tman]

I have a cheapy Rivnut tool that coped OK with aluminium M6 rivnuts but fell apart trying to set an M8 rivnut, again in aluminium.
Ideally what I am after should be able to cope with rivnuts in aluminium and stainless steel up to M8, maybe M10?
What have you got?

I normally just screw a bolt in with a nut on and use that with 2 spanners works fine but not very quick if you have a lot to do

 

[ford34/2]

got one of these at an auction-- brilliant, supposed to be the Rolls Royce of riveters.turned an extra size adapter or two, cant remember, sorry its down at my Sons so cant take a pic, this was a pic at the auction.

Stan

 

[Cyberprog]

I've used a tool, which was made mainly of cheese, but these days just drill a hole in a bit of steel and use that to wind a bolt through to crush the rivet nut up.

 

[pedrobedro]

Memfast is the top name in rivnut tools. I think they only go up to M8 though. You can use the bolt and washer method if you only need to do a few of the bigger size, look on youtube there are lots of videos.

 

[Hitch]

We use an air one at work, years old.
For hand ones, you shouldn't go far wrong with Gesipa.
Depends what size and frequency you plan on using it, more you use it, more you need to pay really. Over time, a cordless or air one would be a huge time saver, eventually earning back the cost of it.

At a previous place they had a couple of cheapy ones, think I broke all of them squeezing them up.

 

[cecotto479]

I bought this recently. Did the job.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B009SFPO2C/ref=oh_details_o08_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

[Cyberprog]

That looks fairly substantial.

 

[Jan]

I'm not sure what you're trying to do, but a local nuts & bolts stockist supplied me with some 'crush' blind 'locknuts' when I wanted to add different (Jag) door mirrors to my Silver Shadow. They are gently tapped into slightly under sized holes drilled into the door skins and then the necks are squished on the inside by the matching bolts to grip firmly. Standard nuts are a non-starter as the door is double skinned all around the area where they needed to be mounted. After that the bolts can be removed if necessary and the nuts stay in place. No idea what they're called, but most such suppliers should be able to help by quoting my description - with luck!

 

[Cyberprog]

Yep, that's a rivnut you're describing there