Harbor Freight gets million dollar fine

One thing I learned with nutsert tools, specifically the ones that make threaded female bolts for water bottles... put some Loctite Red on the surfaces that will be in contact with the metal where the nutserts are going into. The reason for this is that sometimes the nutsert will start spinning in its cavity, making removal of the bolt or screw impossible. Loctite Red, once cured, will stop that.

dodge guy wrote:




Auto manuf have used them for years! Large and small!

You don not need to look any farther than your bicycle to see these. That is how the water bottle cages are attached.

Yes put a nut where one does not exist
Replace sheet metal screws holding things together
By putting a nut in a hole of the rear piece

A good use I have found
Is placing a nut in a hole in fiberglass or sheet metal when replacing running lights, and use machine screw to hold the new light, instead of wood screws in fiberglass

For fiberglass..light due duty tool and aluminum nut inserts
The compression needed for the Steel Serts is too high and will crush the fiberglass

The Texan wrote:

CavemanCharlie wrote:

The Texan wrote:

CavemanCharlie wrote:

MrWizard wrote:
i buy tools from HF, that have a specific use and are not used too much
since i'm retired, and my hobbies do NOT include daily major mechanical work
the vibrating multi tool i bought 8yrs ago, has seen a lot of use, several sets of replacement blades, still works great, my nutsert tool, large hand rivet tool for steel rivets, still good, i recently bought their on sale 10" cable cutter have used it twice, perfect for my use, wish i had these 40 years ago when i was puling wire 6 days a week as a construction electrician
had to settle for using my Line mans pliers or a hack saw, couldn't afford the price of a pair of GreenLee or kilen cable cutters for my tool pouch

What is a "nutsert" tool ??

The only thing I can guess is not safe to post on this site.

Very easy to find yourself -- nutsert tool

Yes, but, I thought maybe he would give a explanation and a example of how it is used. Personally, I have nothing better to do a lot of the time and enjoy doing just that sort of thing. I understand that maybe it is just me that way though.

By the way, by looking at the tool I see it then uses a nut set. By looking at them I'm thinking it's a way to put a light nut in a blind hole in a piece of tin or something like that..... Right??

I've never seen one before and didn't know they existed. Doesn't look like it would come in handy on the farm all that often. Probably while I've never seen one. More likely use in the auto and aircraft industries,, correct??

Or, do I have it all wrong ?

Actually, I used one many times on the ranch, but you are correct, it was a product of the aviation industry.

Auto manuf have used them for years! Large and small!

Most threads take detours after a couple pages. But a couple of these posts seem like they thought they were on a different forum or thread. Not even tangential to the conversation. From incoherent to Lake Wobegon stories. Although that was a play on the value of cheap (Harbor Freight) I guess.

A buddy of mine liked expensive name brand sun glasses and would come to work bragging about spending x hundreds of dollars on a pair. One day his dad came by the shop to take us out for lunch and my buddy couldn't find his sunglasses. He had left them in a customer's vehicle and they were gone for good.
His dad reached across the dash of his old beater truck and sorted thru about a half dozen cheapies. "Here you go boy" and laughed. "He spends $300 for one pair of sunglasses and they are gone in 6 months. I spend $40 and end up with enough to last me forever."

mich800 wrote:

westend wrote:
What this, honorable light no fire side. Stupid yankee, light fire back not side. *&^(*&&^ yankee, I make you special soup.

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LOL :B

CavemanCharlie wrote:

The Texan wrote:

CavemanCharlie wrote:

MrWizard wrote:
i buy tools from HF, that have a specific use and are not used too much
since i'm retired, and my hobbies do NOT include daily major mechanical work
the vibrating multi tool i bought 8yrs ago, has seen a lot of use, several sets of replacement blades, still works great, my nutsert tool, large hand rivet tool for steel rivets, still good, i recently bought their on sale 10" cable cutter have used it twice, perfect for my use, wish i had these 40 years ago when i was puling wire 6 days a week as a construction electrician
had to settle for using my Line mans pliers or a hack saw, couldn't afford the price of a pair of GreenLee or kilen cable cutters for my tool pouch

What is a "nutsert" tool ??

The only thing I can guess is not safe to post on this site.

Very easy to find yourself -- nutsert tool

Yes, but, I thought maybe he would give a explanation and a example of how it is used. Personally, I have nothing better to do a lot of the time and enjoy doing just that sort of thing. I understand that maybe it is just me that way though.

By the way, by looking at the tool I see it then uses a nut set. By looking at them I'm thinking it's a way to put a light nut in a blind hole in a piece of tin or something like that..... Right??

I've never seen one before and didn't know they existed. Doesn't look like it would come in handy on the farm all that often. Probably while I've never seen one. More likely use in the auto and aircraft industries,, correct??

Or, do I have it all wrong ?

Actually, I used one many times on the ranch, but you are correct, it was a product of the aviation industry.

The Texan wrote:

CavemanCharlie wrote:

MrWizard wrote:
i buy tools from HF, that have a specific use and are not used too much
since i'm retired, and my hobbies do NOT include daily major mechanical work
the vibrating multi tool i bought 8yrs ago, has seen a lot of use, several sets of replacement blades, still works great, my nutsert tool, large hand rivet tool for steel rivets, still good, i recently bought their on sale 10" cable cutter have used it twice, perfect for my use, wish i had these 40 years ago when i was puling wire 6 days a week as a construction electrician
had to settle for using my Line mans pliers or a hack saw, couldn't afford the price of a pair of GreenLee or kilen cable cutters for my tool pouch

What is a "nutsert" tool ??

The only thing I can guess is not safe to post on this site.

Very easy to find yourself -- nutsert tool

Yes, but, I thought maybe he would give a explanation and a example of how it is used. Personally, I have nothing better to do a lot of the time and enjoy doing just that sort of thing. I understand that maybe it is just me that way though.

By the way, by looking at the tool I see it then uses a nut set. By looking at them I'm thinking it's a way to put a light nut in a blind hole in a piece of tin or something like that..... Right??

I've never seen one before and didn't know they existed. Doesn't look like it would come in handy on the farm all that often. Probably while I've never seen one. More likely use in the auto and aircraft industries,, correct??

Or, do I have it all wrong ?

westend wrote:
What this, honorable light no fire side. Stupid yankee, light fire back not side. *&^(*&&^ yankee, I make you special soup.

???