Once you have slap tested, all things being equal, you are going to only have to drive screws one more time! ie install the driver at build finish.MA043HA wrote:that's great. The voice of experience! Care to explain why? Advantages/disadvantages when it comes to ease of installation? Does the non-Tnut method have a tendency to strip the screws in the wood with repeated installations? If not, why not?whines wrote:I've done it both ways, never going back to T-nuts.
I just noted that the older plans for the THTLP do call for T-nuts. Why the change?
If you insert the screws by hand initially, they will find their own way into the threads that have been created by previous insertion.
Tnuts can be a total PITA. They require precise placement, and careful alignment before you wind the bolts into them. Unless you use a method to ensure it doesn't happen (eg a small screw in one of the Tnut "flanges"), even with epoxy, they can come loose and spin, making it almost impossible, or at least very difficult, to remove the bolt without some sort of damage to either the driver or the cab.
Lots of people perceive an issue using screws, and that issue is one of their ability to hold the driver.
Needless to say, if this was an actual issue, it would not be a method in the plans...