Folded spring-steel 'nut' clips; and nutserts

[YAPH]

What do they call those spring-steel clips which are made of a short length of folded steel which have a sort of tapped hole stamped into them so that when they're pushed onto the edge of a piece of plain steel or plastic (which has a clearance hole through it) the clip forms a nut into which a self-tapping-type screw fits?

And for a bonus point where would one get some, about 10mm wide by maybe

15mm deep? Or perhaps a kit of various useful sizes?

And in a similar vien anyone know where one can buy nutserts?

[Yuki]

RS offers a few different types.

[Stuart B]

They use them on cars ...well they certainly did on older cars ..Try Frosts website ..auto -restoration

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[Bob Eager]

probably for the nutserts too.

[The Medway Handyman]

A bloody nuisance usually...

[YAPH]

Even more of a bloody nuisance when they've broken/rotted/gone AWOL and you need to refit whatever they were supposed to secure :-)

[Dave Plowman (News)]

They're now usually replaced by a plastic bush that takes a self tapper these days - far less chance of corrosion.