Searching for nuts

[Chillidoggy]

I need some new nuts!

Theyre for the rear lamp assemblies, M5 thread. I've seen and used these before, but have no idea if they have a specific name, or whether they're a specific manufacturer's item. Your investigative help in preventing my rear lamps from falling out would be appreciated!

[Steve V8]

Ian, I'm picking up some new riv-nuts from my local nut and bolt supplier this morning I'll ask the question.

[Chillidoggy]

Cheers, Steve.

I've searched all over the web, and can't find them. They could be collar nuts, sleeve nuts, tube nuts, shoulder nuts or bloody walnuts, I just draw a blank. I suspect they may not be Toyota items, because a Toyota is likely to have a precision-drilled hole for its lamp studs, rather than the more haphazard Lotus 'big hole in the GRP' arrangement. So I think this could be a Lotus-specific securing arrangement, albeit using proprietary nuts like these.

The problem is that the rear lamp studs do not protrude far enough through the GRP to put a standard nut on them. Hence the extended bit, which goes through a suitably-sized flat washer.

[Chillidoggy]

I've found me nuts!

Embarrassingly,  SJ's has them listed.

[Bibs]

If you get stuck again, Modern Screws in Bexley are legendary.

http://www.modern-screws.co.uk/

[Chillidoggy]

I usually find TLF provides more than enough nuts...........

[sailorbob]

If it were for a wheel you'd call it a 'sleeve nut' but to me it looks like a hex bodied connector but that's been partially turned down to form the shoulder. BTW, what's its part number?

[Vulcan Grey]

I would call it a hex head T-nut (Hex Head Round Body Through-Hole T Nut)

[Chillidoggy]

1 hour ago, sailorbob said:

If it were for a wheel you'd call it a 'sleeve nut' but to me it looks like a hex bodied connector but that's been partially turned down to form the shoulder. BTW, what's its part number?

B082M4707F

[Sparky]

I think we should call it Steve.

[sailorbob]

Thanks, it's quite nondescript in the parts manual description.

[Chillidoggy]

29 minutes ago, Sparky said:

I think we should call it Steve.

Shan would be a better name. The rationale being that it's small, yet expensive.

[Sparky]

Or Tracy. Fkn impossible to get hold of.

[Chillidoggy]

2 minutes ago, Sparky said:

Or Tracy. Fkn impossible to get hold of.

 

Are you sure you don't mean 'rare and unobtainable'?

[rocket63]

Ooops 

[Sparky]

Nope.

[Chillidoggy]

It's easy to stand your ground on a forum, whereas in reality.............

[Steve V8]

5 hours ago, Sparky said:

I think we should call it Steve.

I think you are getting your nuts and your studs confused. 

[Bibs]