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Flowdrill has a nice website - check it out. So Ian, where is the video, where are the pics? Robert

Yep I got that part figgered out. I spent six weeks in Missouri, Fort Leonard Wood, back in 1976. Good night.

OK SLAG, let's try this: http://fasteners.sherex.com/item/nd-rivet-nuts-american-style-rivet-nuts-cal-series/cal-series-steel-inches-/cal2-5013-200 I pulled the stock # from the bag pictured above, and this is the OEM. Please let me know if this site has the functionality you desire. Ababa's site is only one layer deep, as I too discovered. They are a local full service commercial/industrial supplier - a pleasure to walk in and do business with. If you hit any snags, give me a shout, 'cause I LIKE RIVNUTS. Robert Taylor

I sure do like having two swivel vises on the table.

Rocks DO bend. For granite, one has to have adequate thickness proportional to surface area. A 12" x 12" surface plate would not be less than 2" thick (approx.) to be considered sound. Below is a typical 3" x 12" x 18-1/2": Then here is a 6" x 14" x 19-1/2" piece taken from the center of a 4 foot by 8 foot table: You might build a frame with a grid of levelling screws under two sheets of granite, and make any size table you wish. Even one sheet at 3 cm (1.181") might work, Matto. You work with the stuff, explore. I like granite a lot, it's pretty tough. Robert Taylor

Just paid $25/50# for coke. If I can ever get it delivered, Kimmel's nut anthracite will be $300/ton

I love my furmily too.

Was 108° here a couple of days ago. I ordered a ton of Nut Anthracite from TSC in January, and still don't have it. Thanks for the heads up, time to rattle somebody's hopper. Robert Taylor

Our prayers are with you. Robert and Sheila Taylor

Splendid to look upon. Good work.

So Thomas, you being an "insider", how far out, really, IS that film, "The President's Analyst"? TP, TPC? Hmmmmm, coincidence?

Keep those pictures coming, and thanks for sharing! Robert Taylor

OK now, Bryan Horseshoeing Supply in Lakeside has coke only - $24.99 for #50. I had to have a little of course:

OK, that dream I dreamed was a good one, less is definitely more: Here it is stripped of all the bells & whistles: The angle isolates the RivNut from rotating. Next you can see how well the high grade ones dig in: Here's the cheap HF set - aluminum and up to 1/4-20: Here is the 3/8-16 from Ababa with $28 install tool: And finally here are the not cheap 1/2-13 RivNuts. Someone else bought the cheap ones and made The Vulf mad: One can hang quite a bit from a 1/4-20, or a 3/8-16, know your specs, have fun & be safe. Robert

Arkie, I woke up dreaming this morning about eliminating one of the unwieldy stop wrenches from my design. I will post the upgrade here today, barring any unforseen eventualities. In order to give you maximum satisfaction, I want to know what size machine screw you have in mind, plus the gauge and dimensions of your square tubing. Smaller gauge RivNuts install like pop rivets . You COULD get a complete kit from Horrible Fate, but you might end up with Daswulf's frowniface. Shown in this thread are 1/2-13 overkill nutserts, but they come in virtually any size, imperial and metric. Below is the link to my Candy Store: http://www.ababaqa.com/ Robert Taylor

If you were to fab from a ground plate, how do you intend to make the holes? Murphy's on Johnson in El Cajon has some bomb cart wheels I have on my list for a #600 iron table I have. I will pick those up and share the particulars. Robert Taylor, Alpine

Now all of this talk is making me itch to stipple, notch, dimple, knurl, section, and polish some test pieces. But that's a lot of meat and taters to cough up, so no date of completion is offered.

Was that a LONG two hours?

This hole is reamed and the nut is driven in. By the time I installed #5, I am sure glad I turned my nose up at the 'official' install tool - I'm not on the clock, and this is a 12-off job. There will be no spin here. As long as it's drawn fully down in a good hole, we are phat and happy.

Is there something superior that I can look at? My current application is not a spin risk. Ah, another specialty tool to look into - A Spunnut Extraction Tool, only $29.95!

Another sample:

I know that "pretty darn strong" is not a real answer, but I will have to trace back the specs. As for how they stay in: See the corrugation on the non-installed nut? That mushrooms out when you draw the nut, as pictured. Those wrenches, greasy nuts, & greasy washers, stand in for a $260.00 nut drawing tool. The GREASY part is VERY important. Robert Taylor

I like RivNuts. If one's smithy be a shack, a shed, or a pallet glom, a rivnut and some unistrut for mee's the bom.

Pacific Contours, formerly Jaycraft. We were heavily involved in the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, and a lot of other stuff. The plant had a packed one acre footprint. It is sad that all of the Human Capital was squandered, literally, to this day of bleak demise.