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Originally Posted by flaflier
Chas/ElMarachi,
Did you guys use the poly-nut, or the aluminum rivet-nut.
Jim
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I have used both but prefer aluminum for small stuff. If you are careful and you chamfer the hole as Chas says, you can get these things awfully close to flush. when attaching two sections of .040 aluminum sheet, I think I used the .075-.120. I would consider chamfering the back side of your door sill strip to account for any raised surface the rivnut might introduce.
With regard to the tool at aircraftspruce.com, that's fine for the bigger steel rivnuts (but I just use a bolt with two nuts and a double wrench method) but for the smaller nuts like we are talking here, the tool is 100 times quicker and easier than fiddling around with two wrenches trying to collapse the nut.