All-righty then ...
In another thread, Terry @alpinord posted a video of his shiny new tool for doing inserts with.
I've used every possible method in the some 200-300 inserts I've installed, and Terry's brilliant, simple, obvious (after the fact, of course - everything is obvious) tool beats them all, and not by a small amount.
I had settled on the double-nut on an M5 screw technique, although with some core types, the screw wants to back out as you're extracting the screw. The key benefit of this insertion method (unlike the BF insertion tool) is that you can keep the insert vertical. This is not trivial.
Every step along the way, there's an opportunity for tilting the insert, and the last (insertion) step can undo a perfectly vertically drilled and tapped insert. This is the key problem I have with the BF insertion tool. Note, that I fabricated my own version of the BF tool from a flat-bladed screwdriver, but I applied the same principle, so I'm confident in stating this.
Terry's tool improves on this "double nut" technique, and not by a small amount.
If you're pondering purchase of any insertion tool, I implore you to head on over to this link on the Slidewrite page:
https://www.slidewright.com/dp/slide...allation-tool/
Here's the video Terry posted, followed by my most recent job on a pair of Praxis BCs:
... Thom
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