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Rivnut® fasteners come in the original thick-wall round body, thin-wall round body, full-hex body, thin-wall half-hex body, Straight/Regular Plusnut® & Pre-Bulb Plusnut®. What body/shank style on the rivet nut is required for your application? For higher volume automotive/agriculture applications, it’s not uncommon to see a zinc nickel (-ZnNi) call-out, which can provide over 1,000 salt spray hours to red rust (and more to white rust)! For any type of plating, salt spray testing is available (additional charge with additional leadtime). In the past, before environmental impacts were well understood, cadmium (-CSI) was used, which is non-Rohs & hexavalent chromated. Steel: Common practice today is for users to plate with a zinc clear (-ZK or -ZNR) or yellow coloring (-ZY or -ZYR), which is RoHs & trivalent chromated. Users may select to anodize the aluminum, but not always.

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300 series stainless is typically called out for use in food grade applications.

Stainless Steel, Aluminum or Brass: Typically, users won’t won’t seek additional plating as these materials already offer natural corrosion resistance. What type of finishing or plating (corrosion resistance) do you need on your blind fastener? Rivet Nut USA carries blind nut inserts made of Steel (typically 1008/1010), Stainless Steel (typically 400 series, such as 430), Non-Magnetic Stainless Steel (typically 300 series, such as 302HQ/304/316), Aluminum (typically 5052 or 6061) and Brass.Ĥ. What type of material do you want the fastener made of? Rivet nuts typically can grip material thicknesses between 0.010” up to 0.500” thick, but no one rivet nut can cover that entire range!ģ.

Metal nutserts install#

If you have a thick 3/8” inch steel plate, you can install a tiny light-duty 6-32 thread or a heavy duty 1/2-13 thread, but both the 6-32 and 1/2-13 will need to have a longer-than-average shank length to accommodate your thicker material. Each rivet nut has a “grip range”, the grip range defines the minimum and maximum material thickness that rivet nut can “grip”. The material thickness is of CRITICAL IMPORTANCE, the thicker the material, the longer the rivet nut you need. What is the thickness of your parent application material? Metric Rivnut® Thread Sizes: M3, M4, M5, M6, M8, M10 and M12 2. Listed below is every CATALOG thread size, and Rivet Nut USA stocks them all! If you don’t see your thread size below, then prepare yourself for a larger order minimum with a longer manufacturing leadtime! Typically, you have a strength requirement or a mating bolt already picked out.

What size thread is needed for your application? Let’s go over the Top 10 Questions you’ll need to answer before designing in a rivet nut or obtaining a rivet nut quote: 1. The rivet nut is the PERFECT solution for thin parent materials that need to gain superior thread strength for secondary attachment abilities.

Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) System Assemblyįor nearly 100 years, OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers) have been finding more and more ways to incorporate this fastener into Rivet Nut Applications.

Appliance Assembly (Commercial & Residential).

OctoThere is an Expansive Variety of OEM Rivet Nut Applications: