Rivnuts

They'd have to be pretty small. Were they made of steel?

I think they were 4mm thread, probably ally inserts, obviously the drawing rood was steel (still in the rivets box somewhere). I used them to keep side panels screwed to the frame on a trials motorbike. The new rivet/nut setter has long fold-out handles and a compound mechanism to give the leverage. It can even set the giant rivets that Ford now use to hold on door handles on the back door of transits, and they are seriously large.

Still got one in the back of the garage somewhere. The inserts it used were quite soft, but it was useful at a time when the heavy-duty tool was very expensive for a one-off use.

Chris

Strange I'd never come across those. But with an ally thread would be of limited use?

The Silverline tool at about 20 quid. Think the biggest I have for that is M8 which are quite hard work. If I were doing lots, as I said, I'd definitely buy a cantilever type.

Ours (kitcar) is £130 comp and has spent the 25 years since we built it parked or driving on the road (the previous 3 months were in our back yard as we built it and that was still 'outdoors'). ;-)

Cheers, T i m

Is it insured as your main or only car doing 12,000 miles a year?

Or a 2nd car doing 6000/3000/1500 miles a year?

And what excess?

No, it's insured as 'a car' with a limit of 5000 miles a years (as on all our cars because of the 'all' bit and because we aren't commuting in them).

I'm not sure even if the insurers on the kitcar ask if we have 'access to any other vehicles' in which case we would have said 'yes' (as we do) but I'm pretty sure we have never told them the role (as in vehicle priority) as we would never know (we use whatever car fits the role at the time or suits our whim etc).

I can't remember. Certainly not anything significant as I normally reduce any voluntary excess down to zero in any case (rarely find it makes any significant difference to the premium (if at all)).

Cheers. T i m

More importantly, I believe it's some kind of Rickman monstrosity, so the 'theft' cover has nil cost, and nobody in their right mind will actually attain anything much more than walking pace in one... so you're highly unlikely to crash one badly enough to make a claim!

You drinking during the day now Steve? ;-(

So, how is that 'safety motorbike' going?

"SteveH, the answer to the question no one asked ...!"

Cheers, T i m