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Installing rivet nuts on the cheap

Discussion in 'Gen 3 Prius Care, Maintenance & Troubleshooting' started by Mendel Leisk, Sep 29, 2017.

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    Mendel Leisk Senior Member

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    Weld nuts, rivet nuts, basically putting threaded hole in existing steel, has been on my mind, since installing an oil catch can. Here's an interesting video, on cheap effective install of rivet nuts, usable in close quarters where the regular, expensive rivet nut install tools just wouldn't fit anyway:

     
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    Crikey, that's brilliant! Nice find. (y)
     
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    Couple more videos:



    Which lead to:



    Brit's seem to love these, lol.
     
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    Amazon has some aluminum and stainless steel rivet nut assortments:



     
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