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<blockquote data-quote="onthewater102" data-source="post: 441654" data-attributes="member: 13702"><p>If you're going stainless then 1/4-20 is fine - I would have gone larger with aluminum. Apply some 5200 to the area before you set the rivnut in place in case it gives you a barrier between the direct contact of the stainless and the aluminum. If it doesn't you're no worse off. </p><p></p><p>The stainless rivnuts set much more reliably than the aluminum ones - more often than you'd like the pressure required to set the aluminum rivnut is close to the pressure needed for the threaded steel setting mandrel to tear the threads out of it, so it can be very wasteful to do a lot of them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="onthewater102, post: 441654, member: 13702"] If you're going stainless then 1/4-20 is fine - I would have gone larger with aluminum. Apply some 5200 to the area before you set the rivnut in place in case it gives you a barrier between the direct contact of the stainless and the aluminum. If it doesn't you're no worse off. The stainless rivnuts set much more reliably than the aluminum ones - more often than you'd like the pressure required to set the aluminum rivnut is close to the pressure needed for the threaded steel setting mandrel to tear the threads out of it, so it can be very wasteful to do a lot of them. [/QUOTE]
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