On 27 Oct 2013 04:02:41 GMT, "DoN. Nichols"
wrote:

On 2013-10-26, Larry Jaques wrote:
On 26 Oct 2013 04:04:43 GMT, "DoN. Nichols"
wrote:

On 2013-10-25, Larry Jaques wrote:
On 25 Oct 2013 02:09:38 GMT, "DoN. Nichols"
wrote:

[ ... HF Rivnut tool (sorta) ... ]

Just very poorly photographed, then. :-)

You expect otherwise in today's life? Half the pics I see lately were
taken by gasp damned cellphones by their overcaffeinated owners.
'sCriminal, it is.

:-)

If they had just photographed from a bit more of an angle, to
show the shape of the Rivnuts, it would have been a big help. The tool
could also be used with Nutserts, however. Just a bit different amount
of crimp travel.

Low budget photog.

Low budget, and nobody present who knew what angle of view would
give the customer information which s/he needs. (But then again, isn't
that HF's basic principle of operation? :-)

I think you could apply that to the vast majority of bidnesses alive
today. They saved money by doing it in-house, using clueless morons
who get minimum wage. "Why are my customers bailing?" they whine.
C'est la guerre, oui?


If *I* had been photographing it, I would have included one
photo showing the side view of a brand new Rivnut sitting beside one
which had just been crimped (without the sheet metal to obscure the
view), so people could see how it is supposed to work. :-)

[ ... ]

Glad that you were able to walk away from both. Always
remember, "Perfect is the enemy of good enough."

Thanks, and I agree.

I've experienced the too high alcohol intake problem in a
family member (who is no longer with us.)

Ours, too. One aunt, an alky who I dearly loved, accidentally shot
her husband who had broken into the bathroom where she was going to
commit suicide. She accomplished it a week later. Sad.

Ouch! Accidentally? She was going to use the gun to commit
suicide? And when he broke in, he startled her enough so the weapon
discharged?

He grabbed it and it went off in the struggle.


In the case I mentioned, there were no firearms present. She
fell and broke a hip, then bailed out of the rehab place early so she
could get home to her alcohol and tobacco.

Later, in the nursing home, she re-broke the hip, and when on the
operating table that time, her heart stopped and was restarted, but
there was no brain function left. The heart kept running for another
week and a half.

Wow. Now -that- is addiction...


[ ... Back to Rivnuts .. ]

Ideally, someone else (who knows what s/he is doing, sets the
projection of the nose on the tools for a particular project, and then
the assembly people just put each Rivnut in properly without trouble.
(Another reason for having spares is to get the tool set just right,
which requires a few test rivets to be expended. :-)

Nah, not if you're GOOD. polishes fingernails on chest

Maybe -- but I know that I sometimes need to try a couple,
especially if it has been a while since I last used it, and don't
remember what thickness metal it was set for, and what grip range
Rivnut, too. :-)

That's what you get, using those januwine RivNuts instead of the more
superiorer Chiwanese import thingies.


[ ... and Anti-seize ... ]

I used the anti-seize on the plugs in my MGA, which was fairly
difficult to get to. :-)

I rode in an MGTD to the QA job we were talking about. There was a
gaping hole in the floorboard on the passenger side which made rainy
days interesting. I'm sure glad we didn't live in England at the
time. SoCal was bad enough. Heck, it got down to 40 there sometimes,
in the middle of winter!

Knowing what I know now, I'd have helped him fit and weld in a new
floorboard.

Hmm ... that would to have worked for the MGA. The foorboards
are plywood, screwed down over lips on the trans tunnel, and into welded
on nuts on the bottom of the raill, where they could rust in place.

Indeed.


The manual had you pull the seats, floorboards, and trans tunnel
to access changing the clutch. I did it that way *once*, and then
figured out how to do it leaving all of that in there.

And -- on my first one (a '57) -- someone before had replaced
the official rear hanger for the muffler with a standard US one, which
broke, bowing the exhaust tube up into contact with the plywood, which
charred and sent an undesirable smell into the cockpit. Luckily, this
was winter, and I pulled off and dumped some handfuls of snow on it,
then I smashed a tin can flat and put it between the pipe and the
floorboard, so I could get home and fix it *right*. :-) (I went to the
local dealer and bought the proper support bracket -- and I think that
was the only Whitworth hardware on the car. I had to use a crescent
wrench on it. :-)

Isn't it fun, having to use 3 different style-sets of tools on one
vehicle?

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