On Sun, 04 Sep 2011 18:00:37 -0500, DougC
wrote:

On 9/4/2011 3:52 PM, Gunner Asch wrote:


No mill eh?

Clamp it in a good vise and grind it down with the angle grinder till
its flat with the top of the vise. Then start a bolt into it from the
unground side.

Cutting them with a hacksaw is intirely possible. It just takes a
while. Then you will have to grind them flat cause one seldom ever gets
a square cut with a hacksaw.



I do have a mill and could just cut two of them down--but I only need
two nuts, each with one face perpendicular. If I saw one nut in half
thicnkess-wise I'd get that. The sawed faces being rough won't matter.

Trust me...if you have two nuts...stick em in the vise and mill them
down. It will be a hell of a lot easier than bandsawing
them...seriously.

Gunner


The bandsaw is a metal-cutting one.

The local hardware places I checked have jam nuts but only up to 1/2". I
didn't want to mail-order it (part=$1, shipping=$5).

There is a sears hardware store right down the road a bit, but I was not
aware they sold nuts & bolts at all. I will have to get by and look.

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