[Diy_efi] OT : mounting fastners

[Dustin Lof]

I havent read any previous posts on this subject, but
has anyone mentioned an expanding sheetrock anchor,
the butterfly looking things?

--- Jim Butterfield <jimbutterfield at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Ok, this is the second post... I do intend to use 
> these holes to mount the console  firmly to the
> floor board... so  I dont want to fill them, but
> rather put an insert in them... Im  familar with the
> pop rivet insert threads that you all speak of... 
> didnt know how big them came.... I will have to find
> a supplier, as to  the 2 I talked to today were
> quite shocked as to what I wanted... "I do  know"
> was the common answer... 
>   
>   I thank you all for your suggestions
>   
>   jim
> 
> Ernest Buckler <ebuckler at icehouse.net> wrote:       
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>         ?? mounting hole     should be about a 3/8?
> rivnut. Readily available and not too difficult to  
>   install. My standard Rivnut tool goes to 3/8
>      
>     Big     Jim
>      
>     Thanks, Jim, had no     idea.  Had never seen
> Rivnuts over 5/16, and a hand-operated setter was a 
>    real pisser to pull at that size. 
>      
>     The question still     remains about what the
> original writer intends to do with these holes -
> fill     them to block them off, or use them to mt
> the console he briefly     mentions.  If there's no
> access to the outside, what's the problem    
> anyway, eh?
>      
>     Ernie
>      
>      
>          
>         Top reply:     Depends on what you want to
> do with these holes?  Merely plug them up for    
> water reasons?  Or attach something in those
> locations?  Rivnuts in     1/2" size are gonna be
> rare and hard to install.  Epoxy sounds like the    
> best cheap answer so far.
> 
>         Ernie
> 
>                  
> 
>             Hello all, got a question about mounting
> to the       floor pan. Ive a new console to mount
> to the floor of the car... there are 2       holes -
> 1/2" diameter already in the floor pan does anyone
> know a way to put       a fastner in there without
> getting to the back side... its kind of a pocket    
>   in the body floor. 
> 
> 
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