Joeleen Wakefield
Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2025
He loves it works great easy to use, quality is good he said it works really well hasn’t had any issues
DON BURNETT
Reviewed in the United States on July 17, 2024
have put many rivets in with no issues
Mark Holland
Reviewed in the United States on June 10, 2024
It takes a bit of torque to compress the river nuts into sheet metal but once done the they make a strong bond.
Michael Taylor
Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2023
I put in 120 M8 riv-nuts on my aluminum dock sections. The hardest part was to drill the holes straight so they line up with the bracket holes. Once I made a drill jig it went perfectly.I adjusted the tool to tighten it so far, then turned the thread in 1 more turn and tightened the riv-nuts again to finish the rivet. This made it easier to tighten them to the aluminum. The tool made this very easy.I have some M6 to do soon.Make sure not to tighten too much or the tool can pull the threads.I use a form tap to fix this if it happens!(Pro Tip)
Fredco
Reviewed in the United States on May 11, 2023
I would have like some instruction on this vs. figuring it out and so it took a while to get the knack of it. While it certainly looks heavy enough I felt that the 3mm screw to set the rivet was not up to the task of getting good compression on the rivet and it "sort of" stripped or perhaps slipped the first time I used it, again instruction would have helped in letting me know how much of a pull I needed to set the rivet or how I should set up the gun and rivet. I also had an issue with the die if one would call it that removing it from the gun and found that an area where a c clip would go to hold in a sprint was not existent and so made the unit a little harder to assemble then need once I got the die (the screw that pulls the rivet down) off. For the price a good kit for occasional use and comes with a good selection of both SAE and Metric rivets and dies.
SactoDoug
Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2023
This tool worked great for me. I was able to make repairs using rivnuts that were difficult to impossible using other methods. I tried using a hardened bolt and nut to set a rivnut. This tool not only did it 10X easier but also 10X quicker.Two tips for using the tool:First as soon as you get it out of the package, make sure everything works and all the parts are present. On mine the nob at the base was stuck. I did not realize that until I had set my first rivnut and had to spin the whole tool to reverse it out. It was easy to break it loose by taking off the knob and using a wrench to pop it loose.Second and most importantly, be careful with how much force you use! If you look at all the different sizes of rivnuts, you will see that the large one compress more than the small ones. Even with the same size of rivnut, the amount of force can change because of the thickness of the metal you are putting the rivnut into. You do NOT have to use the full travel of the handles. There will be some initial resistance and then at a point the resistance will go up significantly. When you feel the resistance go up, STOP! If you keep going you can strip the threads on the tool. Stopping early is much better than breaking the tool. If you did not use enough force to set the nut, you can always put the tool back in the rivnut and tighten it more. You can't go back and easily fix stripped threads on the tool.
KS Analytical Systems
Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2021
I'd ordered a similar tool for my home and it came with a nice, blow-molded case that holds everything together. This one was just in a cardboard box. It seems to be the same tool and works well, but everytime we use it, I have to dump all the contents out and then repack them in the box. It's a little odd-sized so none of the generic tool bags/boxes we have fit both the tool and accessories. Other than that, it's great.
Jack
Reviewed in the United States on June 12, 2019
Installed (4) 3/8 steel rivet nut in the back seat of my car to mount a piece of MDF with which has my amplifier mounted to it.Once you make the initial compression, back off a bit, re-tighten the center screw and compress it some more. Then back off again and you shouldn't be able to re-tighten the center screw. Once you have reached that point, you are done and the rivnut is secure.Just make sure that the material, which in my case was somewhat thin sheet metal (I have no idea the gauge) is FLAT before installing. Drilling the hole to install the rivet nut mangled the sheet metal slightly so I had to hammer it flat before installing the rivet nut.Double check the proper hole size for the rivet nut you are using as you want the smallest hole that the rivet nut will fit. I ended up using a smaller size bit as I didn't have the exact size recommended (they're usually odd sizes or a metric equivalent) and using a dremel to smooth the hole round until the rivet nut just fit.I did lubricate all moving parts before first use as others have said, it's very dry to start with. Can't wait to find new use cases for this tool!