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2002 1436 Alumacraft and floatation pods
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<blockquote data-quote="SteveBob" data-source="post: 485025" data-attributes="member: 31345"><p>As it stands now the rivnuts won't work, but not for any of the reasons listed above. Compressing the steel nuts in the aluminum firmly enough to keep them from spinning, crushes/pinches the aluminum. It does it enough to weaken the metal that they were installed in. Due to the beveled flange on the steel nuts, the 0.100" thick aluminum crushes paper thin on the sides of the hole. One good kick could rip them right out of the pods. So for safety sake I am back to square one in rethinking my mounting options. When using these in the past I always used them with plate or angle steel. I thought aluminum would/could have handled the rivnuts better. I think they could still work if I was able to place a washer on the rivnuts inside of the pod. That would require me to put a big hole in the pod. If I was to do that, I'd probably just bolt them on the regular way. Something I still do not want to do.</p><p></p><p>Oh well.... I can admit it when I'm wrong. Even if it sucks to do so. </p><p></p><p>At least I did the test on a piece of aluminum I had in my workshop first rather than molesting the pods.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SteveBob, post: 485025, member: 31345"] As it stands now the rivnuts won't work, but not for any of the reasons listed above. Compressing the steel nuts in the aluminum firmly enough to keep them from spinning, crushes/pinches the aluminum. It does it enough to weaken the metal that they were installed in. Due to the beveled flange on the steel nuts, the 0.100" thick aluminum crushes paper thin on the sides of the hole. One good kick could rip them right out of the pods. So for safety sake I am back to square one in rethinking my mounting options. When using these in the past I always used them with plate or angle steel. I thought aluminum would/could have handled the rivnuts better. I think they could still work if I was able to place a washer on the rivnuts inside of the pod. That would require me to put a big hole in the pod. If I was to do that, I'd probably just bolt them on the regular way. Something I still do not want to do. Oh well.... I can admit it when I'm wrong. Even if it sucks to do so. At least I did the test on a piece of aluminum I had in my workshop first rather than molesting the pods. [/QUOTE]
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