Installation Tools
AVK Hand Operated Installation Tool
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Expendable Tools - AAT916 & AA184
The following expendable tools are ideal for field repairs or consumer installation of AVK’s products. Thread the AVK fastener onto the tool mandrel all the way up.
INSTALLATION
- Thread AVK part onto tool
- Place into Hole
- Hold the tool with a box wrench and turn the mandrel with another box wrench or ratchet wrench until the AVK fastener is installed.
![Handtools AA](/assets/local/images/tools/tools-handtools-aa.jpg)
AA170 Plier Tool
The AA170 tool is ideal for prototyping or making repairs with the A-K, A-L, A-H, A-P, A-O, E-L and E-H Series threaded inserts.
INSTALLATION
- Thread AVK part onto tool
- Place into Hole
- Squeeze handles
![Handtools AA170 Plier Tool](/assets/local/images/tools/tools-handtools-aa170.jpg)
AA112 HI-TORQUER™
The AA112 is ideal for prototyping or making repairs with the A-T and A-W Series threaded inserts. It features a patented Quick Change thread size nose assembly.
INSTALLATION
- Thread insert fully onto mandrel
- Place into Hole
- Hold grip bar while turning the “T” handle clockwise until insert is installed
- Turn “T” handle counter clockwise to remove from insert.
![Handtools AA112](/assets/local/images/tools/tools-handtools-aa112.jpg)
AA480N Double Action Lever Tool
The AA480N tool features a visual stroke indicator and a convenient spin-off removal knob. This tool installs the full range of AVK’s spinwall technology product in steel and aluminum and limited sizes of steel and aluminum rivet nuts.
INSTALLATION
- Set the appropriate stroke per the AVK tool instruction sheet
- Thread product fully onto tool mandrel
- Place into the hole in your parent material
- Squeeze tool handles together until product is fully collapsed
- Spin center knob counter-clockwise unthreading tool mandrel from installed product
![AA480 Double Action Lever Tool](/assets/local/images/tools/tools-handtools-aa480.jpg)
AA510N Plunger-Double Action Lever Tool
The AA510N tool features a visual stroke indicator and a quick acting pull to remove plunger. Due to its larger size, this tool installs the full range of AVK’s Spinwall Technology™ Threaded Insert Product in all materials and various steel and aluminum rivet nuts.
INSTALLATION
- Set the appropriate stroke per the AVK tool instruction sheet
- Withdraw plunger from tool
- Hold product over tool mandrel while pushing plunger into tool fully threading product onto the tool mandrel
- Place into hole in your parent material
- Squeeze tool handles together until product is fully collapsed
- Pull plunger from tool unthreading mandrel from installed product
![AA510N Plunger-Double Action Lever Tool](/assets/local/images/tools/tools-handtools-aa510.jpg)