How to install a nutsert without using the tooling

[the evil twin]

I bought a whole kit a while ago, with tool and nutserts. Have only used it a couple of time and found when pulling up the nutsert using the tool I have stripped the thread inside the nutsert. I think I haven't had the tool set right for the thickness of the paneling, but the kit came with instructions that are pretty much useless. So as of late I have just done it by feel with success.

Very handy item to have though.

Yeah, the tools have quite a bit of leverage... on smaller sizes up to about say M6 its easy to pull the mandrel thru the Nutsert if you don't set the tool correctly or lapse into Schwarznegger Mode... goes off with a bit of a bang when it does too, eh :-)