wrote in message
...
... The critical point is that this set screw would not go into *
the hole
it came out of in the first place*. It was not particularly
difficult
to unscrew either.

It was a perfect fit into a 5/16-18 screw gauge.

I can find no evidence that M8 with 1.5 mm pitch exists - all the
references I have seen mention only 1mm and 1.25 mm pitch in this
size. What are the odds that a set screw of this nature would be of
so
uncommon configuration?

Michael Koblic,
Campbell River, BC

"I have a cheap 4x6 band saw which I bought on sale from Busy Bee and
which came with a Harbor-Freight manual."

Was it in the original unopened package? If not it might have been
returned as defective and the wrong screw installed to 'fix' it.

When Enco had a local retail store they let me look around the storage
area where I found and adopted several such unwanted orphans with
easily repaired defects. Sometimes Home Depot, Lowe's and the Harbor
Freight store will make deals to get rid of their problem children
too.

The trick is being able to diagnose the problem and estimate the
repairs on the fly, without taking it all apart. More than half of my
stuff including almost all of the computers and even this house was
'broken' when I bought it, cheap.

jsw