Astro Pneumatic Tool ADN38 XL Rivet Nut Drill Adapter Kit - 3/8" Capacity

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i have installed hundreds of rivnuts with tool and it has made my life so much easier i do the by hand ( not with a drill) and have had zero issues.

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Works great but something you have to get a feel for. It’s pretty easy to over torque the rivnuts causing the threaded portion to be off center. I had to drill a few out and start again. If you don’t get them torqued enough, they spin on you and it can be a pain to get the bolts out.

The device is easy to use and very nice to be able to use a drill for installing the nuts. Larger nuts take the ratcheting level to be set high (15) but works well with a 20v Dewalt drill. Smaller nuts take lower settings.Not having to have a lot of extra equipment (air compressor and hoses) as well as the power drill assist makes doing multiple rivnuts a breeze. I did 80 in less than half an hour while installing the rails they were using. Highly recommended. Just make sure you follow the directions and do over do the reversing and compression. You can break the tool and/or the shanks.

The build quality of the body is good. It's hard to gauge how much torque to let the drill go to and be sure the rivet is set properly. It's hard enough to hang on to while riveting. It got very hard to hold when the thrust bearing on the input shaft crumbled after about eight 1/4" rivnuts. I returned it and purchased an Astro 1442. I'm happy with the 1442 so far.

Super-nice! I used it to install 14 3/8-16 rivnuts into the frame of my Rubicon to mount LoD rock sliders last night. The LoD slider's instructions ask that you drill holes in the frame and tap threads for the mounting bolts. I did it that way on my last Jeep and that's a weak setup, as there will only be a couple of threads on the thin frame and you can't torque down the 7/16's bolts without stripping them. This time around I used 40 fl-lbs of torque on each bolt in the nutsert. Also, there are a few locations where my hand-held nut setter would not have the clearance to work the handles. With this tool I could do all the mounting positions.It's a nice, well-machined, functional tool that I would recommend to anyone with a need to set nutserts.

Just received it. Out of the box there was a metric mandrel in it. The smaller nut is so tight I could not get it off and all my river nuts are SAE so I can’t even test it. I’ll have access to a vise tomorrow but I’m not looking forward to messing up a brand new tool that I haven’t even tested.