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[mintom]

Hi,
I recently bought a new door. It has the two holes for the door mirror, but not the fixing nuts with the screw thread.
I've tracked down the parts I need here.. door mirror fixing nut (Mini spares).
Do I require a special tool or technique to fit them? I don't want to damage the door..

Thanks!

[icklemini]

RivNut tool needed to fit them...

[steve and tina]

I bought short M6 nuts and bolts from a local hard ware store the only tip I can realy offer is cover your 10mm spanner with grease this will then hold the nut in the spanner while putting the bolt through the mirror and door it is so easy to drop nuts down inside the door never to be seen again cheers Steve

[Dan]

Where in 'South Bucks' do you live?

[mintom]

Thanks icklemini, steve & tina, bit concerned if the mirror got thwacked with bolts in, would it damage the door?

Where in 'South Bucks' do you live?

I'm in Marlow Dan. I think we met on the TMF campsite at IMM. By my memory you're not a significant distance from where I used to live?

[Dan]

Aha, the Scottish chap (I was going to say drunken Scottish chap but that seemed unfair, although accurate at the time! ). I asked because I was going to say I could bring you a RivNut tool and RivNuts but I just remembered that I only have metric mandrels for mine now and these are supposed to be 3/16" UNF rivnuts.

[mintom]

Aha, the Scottish chap (I was going to say drunken Scottish chap but that seemed unfair, although accurate at the time! ). I asked because I was going to say I could bring you a RivNut tool and RivNuts but I just remembered that I only have metric mandrels for mine now and these are supposed to be 3/16" UNF rivnuts.

yes that will have been at some point the singing drunken scottish chap too no doubt! when on vacation etc

Well many thanks for the thought at least Dan, that's very kind of you.
Right.. maybe now I'm starting to get my head around this terminology.. or at least doing a good job of pretending! Half the battle is knowing what you need!
Looks like I need to get hold of (or find someone or local garage who has) a rivnut gun, plus some rivnuts of a specific size (3/16").

Edited by mintom, 12 November 2009 - 12:40 AM.

[taffy1967]

I've kept these links saved and they may come in useful?: -

Click Me 1

Click Me 2

[bananaman]

If you go to the rack in Halfords that has all of the loose fuses, nuts bolts etc, in there somewhere are some plastic rivnuts that you just push into the holes in the door skins, then they grip like a rawplug when you screw the nut for the mirror into them.

I used these, much easier, and much simpler to fit or replace if you need to.

Tony

Edited by bananaman, 12 November 2009 - 06:19 AM.

[Hekmat]

If you go to the rack in Halfords that has all of the loose fuses, nuts bolts etc, in there somewhere are some plastic rivnuts that you just push into the holes in the door skins, then they grip like a rawplug when you screw the nut for the mirror into them.

I used these, much easier, and much simpler to fit or replace if you need to.

Tony

The rubber nuts that you are these ones, you can also get them from any motorbike shop. They also supply other sizes and the bolts to go with it. I use this ones all the time on the bike's fairing and they hold nicely.

Edited by Hekmat, 12 November 2009 - 07:47 AM.

[mintom]

@taffy - great links, it's nice to get another supplier of fixings and now I know rivnut / rivet gun differences. On a different front I was looking for small hex bolts which I saw here. I'd heard they were quite a good replacement for fitting of rebound buffers as in easier to get off.

@bananaman, @hekmat, loving the plastic/rubber options for ease of fitting and replacement without tool. Definitely going to look into the feasibility of this option.