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Hi Erich,
sorry for the slow reply I've only just been alerted to this discussion. I'm currently trialing making my own lot of 1/4 bsf hank nuts for my reproduction ulster. They are round not hexagonal like some hank nuts.. if successful, I could probably make a few extra. As Ian mentioned, you dont need a special setting tool, just a hammer and dolly. I'll let you know how it all goes.
Cheers,
Athow
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Thank you, Athow. If you are successful I will buy a half dozen or so from you. Doesn't the hammer have to have a cone shaped head to spread the lip? Would that be the rounded part of a ball pein hammer?
Erich in Seattle
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Having been prompted by this thread I dug out a drawer marked rib it’s and found quite a number of hank nuts mostly 0 ,2 & 3 BA.
I don’t have much need for them so if anyone wants a few I’ll send them out for the cost of postage, no you can’t have them all, I’d prefer to spread them about as need arises
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Thank you, Henry.
Erich in Seattle
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Hi Mike, Thank you. I've got some and may end up using. I was hoping to find BSF because as a fine thread, it is less prone to loosening. And steel is usually BSF, whereas alloy is WW. That said, if this is what I can get, then WW is what I'll use.
Erich in Seattle
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I had not known what these were called until recently. Here in NA we have a number of names and variations. Nutsert, rivet nut, rivet bush, and a few others.
Erich in Seattle
