Not to get too off-topic, but as someone who had never even heard of Rivnuts before seeing this thread, I'm curious... What are the actual benefits of using a Rivnut? Most of the application examples I've seen so far look like it would have been far simpler and faster to just use a regular bolt+locknut.
You don't appear to be saving space since the rivnuts still stick out, and for that matter the rivnuts also appear to create an additional space on the front side of the material that wouldn't have otherwise been there.
Am I missing something here?
