Re: [alfa] "Captive nuts"

[Richard Welty <rwelty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 20:57:52 +0000 tarur@domain.elided wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 12:56:34 -0700 Richard Welty 
> <rwelty@domain.elided> wrote:
> > the original brand was called a "rivnut". i'm not familiar with the
> > alternatives; i know of them from Carroll Smith's revered tomes
> > on race car prep.

> I think another name for them are "nutserts".

Rivnut is (or was) a BFG brand name; nutsert would be somebody
else's competing product. they've been around long enough that
any patents have probably expired.

richard
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