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F. George McDuffee F. George McDuffee is offline
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Default Another Shaper question

On 30 May 2015 02:59:22 GMT, "DoN. Nichols"
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The problem being that the existing thread in the dovetailed
base of the compound is already 16 TPI, and changing to 10 TPI would
mean irregular areas where the two threads remove metal from different
places, thus weakening the thread overall, and making it wear out
faster.

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7/16X20 UNF allthread?
http://tinyurl.com/od8jppc
include a piece of nylon weedwhacker line to both take out
any slop and provide friction drag.


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