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How To Use Knurled Rivet Nuts

  • The rivet nut was earlier called the rivet nut, and it is known as "the gospel of the thin plate connection technology" in foreign countries, and it is also called the rivet nut, pull cap, and pull nut in China. It is developed to solve the problems of welded nuts connecting metal sheets and thin pipes, such as easy melting, and direct tapping of internal threads on the sheet. It is currently being widely used in sheet metal, sheet metal, chassis, cabinets, furniture, elevators, air conditioners, Automobile, shipbuilding, high-speed rail, aviation and other manufacturing fields. The flat head rivet nut is an earlier and commonly used rivet nut. It is riveted on the plate with the corresponding hole. The head will be exposed on the surface of the plate. There are flat heads and vertical lines and flat heads. Some customers need to rivet after riveting. The nut and the plate remain flat, which requires the use of countersunk rivet nuts and small countersunk rivet nuts. knurled rivet nuts and threaded rivet nuts are also a kind of rivet nuts.

    If the installation method of the knurled rivet nut is not correct, the riveting will not be firm after pulling the riveting. This will cause the uneven force of the rivet nut and seriously affect the effect. Special installation equipment must be used to install rivet nuts, or simple equipment in the factory. Let’s take a look at the correct use of knurled rivet nuts.

    How to use knurled rivet nut 

    (1)Install the rivet nut on the pneumatic rivet gun.

    (2)Insert the rivet nut on the rivet gun vertically into the mounting hole.

    (3)Start the rivet gun to quickly make the thin-walled part of the rivet nut Expand outwards and rivet the workpiece.

    (4)When the riveting is completed, the riveting gun will automatically withdraw.