Been using rivets for years and always seem to be drilling out rivets... Anybody use rivnuts? Thinking about using them to mount a trolling motor base on an aluminum deck.
Rivnuts on your boat
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Been using rivets for years and always seem to be drilling out rivets... Anybody use rivnuts? Thinking about using them to mount a trolling motor base on an aluminum deck.
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I love rivnuts. Sometimes I drill holes just so I can put rivnuts in them. Just don't use zinc coated rivnuts in an aluminum boat with stainless screws. Seriously, they make it easy to clean a boat up, and are plenty strong.
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So the minnkota brackets always come with stainless bolts. Do I use stainless rivnuts then or aluminum?
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Had a bad experience with riv nuts on my old boats duck blind, seemed it was ripping out every other trip, I'm not a fan of them
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There are two lines of thinking here. Would you rather have dissimilar oxidation between the hull and the rivnut, or between the rivnut and the bolt? I like stainless rivnuts with stainless bolts for the load bearing things like trolling motors. A little oxidation between the hull and the rivnut seems the lesser of the two evils to me. They are expensive, so I have been using aluminum rivnuts with stainless screws for the smaller things. If rivnuts are ripping out, I would think that they are not installed properly, or the hull is too thin to use them? I have only had one spin out, and I wasn't the one who installed it, so I can't tell you if poor technique was a factor in the failure.
I used aluminum rivnuts with stainless bolts BUT i also used anti seize on the bolts.Ill run like this for a few months then check them for galvanic destruction, No-lox might be a better product to fight dissimilar metals.Have never had a rivnut let go as of yet.
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