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race screen mounting using jacknuts


wild bill

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I used to run an aeroscreen in carbon but hated the lack of visibility in placing the car so i sold it. I have 2 perspex race screens so was wondering about drilling the scuttle and fitting rivnuts. These are a pain to fit unless you have the correct tool (when i rebuilt i did all mine with a borrowed rivnutter but remeber being a bit stressed by it akthough all went well in the end due to lots of practising). I've now seen jacknuts which achieve the same result without the need for a rivet tool. I want to be able to swap back to full screen relatively easily. I do not want to buy a clear aeroscreen for £160 odd quid when £10 of jack nuts will achieve the same (yes i'm a miserly sod)

Question is has anyone tried jacknuts? and how were they?

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I have used jacknuts, but not on a Seven. Used them on PVC window frames to attach security items and for that they worked well.  Ideally they still need a setting tool and I actually used my rivnut tool.  All the rivnuts I have seen were steel so I would think aluminium rivnuts would be a better option to minimise the threat of corrosion to the scuttle

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7 Wonders, i'm not sure that will achieve the ease of the access holes in the scuttle being threaded. If i'm going to do this the aeros need to be removable from externally IYSWIM. I can't see how those items achieve this, although i'm fairly stupid so i'm probably missing the bleeding obvious.

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PS I live next to a garage so i borrowed theirs last time but rivnut fitting is not my favourite past time. I'll not tackle it until April i suspect unless i get really bored but atm i'm doing my job and all the domestics inc washing cooking and child rearing so spare time slightly tricky. I might try the rubber grommet route initially on a test piece and go that route if it works.

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