Originally Posted by
Trakhak
See post no. 15 above. The video shows exactly how to fix a rivnut that "spins in place, you can neither loosen or tighten it." (To clarify: in your bike, it's the rivnut that's spinning in the frame, not the bolt spinning in the rivnut).
Maybe I'm describing the problem wrong. The bolt cannot be removed. When you attempt to tighten or loosen the bolt, it just spins with the rivnut. The video makes the repair look easy, but in this case with the bolt fixed in place it looks like the repair requires drilling out the bolt.