The Rivnut tool is an excellent design and appears to use the same frame as a Pop Rivet Gun, just different jaws and gripping devices. Many of the smaller quantaties if the thread inserts are packaged with a small too that installs them quite well. It is a combination of a piece of 1/2" diameter hex stock about an inch long with a hole drilled through the length of it. One end is serated. A hex head machine screw (included in the kit) is inserted through the hole and into the thread insert, the assembly is then placed into a drilled hole and an end wrench used to prevent the hex stock from turning while the machine screw is tightened and the insert collapsed in the sheet metal. Once collapsed, the screw is backed out and the installed insert remains. These kits are how the inserts are packaged and sold for the small time user, the gun is nice but the above works well too.
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AND IT'S MADE IN THE USA!!! imagine that!
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