Re: Captive Nuts

["Philip E. Barnes" <peb3@cornell.edu>]

At 9:05 AM +0930 8/25/99, frank wrote:
"The bolts are regular, everyday bolts, but the nuts have a cylindrical
extension on one side which is countersunk. ...what you do is slip the
cylindrical extension through the sheet metal hole, put the tool on the
bolt, and do the bolt up tightly. you then undo the bolt, & remove the
tool..."

What Frank describes is called a Riv-Nut, among other trade names. Very
handy for blind applications and for thin metal sections.

--Phil