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Metalworking (rec.crafts.metalworking) Discuss various aspects of working with metal, such as machining, welding, metal joining, screwing, casting, hardening/tempering, blacksmithing/forging, spinning and hammer work, sheet metal work. |
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It's a standard/coarse thread 9/16" hole, 15/16" total outside nut. The
damn nut is bigger than a walnut, so there's going to be a little work welding a cap in there, then trimming it all down to a workable size. I'll go to Ace and see if they have a thinner one that requires less machining. For what I charge, I could just go buy a new opener. Good thing this isn't for a real customer. Why do we do that? Steve Heart surgery pending? www.cabgbypasssurgery.com Heart Surgery Survival Guide ISBN: 978-1-935018-41-4 |
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On Apr 11, 7:44*pm, "Steve B" wrote:
It's a standard/coarse thread 9/16" hole, 15/16" total outside nut. *The damn nut is bigger than a walnut, so there's going to be a little work welding a cap in there, then trimming it all down to a workable size. *I'll go to Ace and see if they have a thinner one that requires less machining.. For what I charge, I could just go buy a new opener. *Good thing this isn't for a real customer. Why do we do that? Steve You won't buy a lathe to make this part? jsw |
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"Jim Wilkins" wrote You won't buy a lathe to make this part? jsw If I was to part with any cash right now, it would be for a plasma cutter. I'm a welder, not a machinist, and have a lot more use for a cutter. I would find it interesting, though, to find a machinist who had a lathe, and learn some stuff. My dad was a machinist all his life, a flight engineer in the US Army Air Corps. 13th Army, 307th Bomb Group. The "Long Rangers." South Pacific ribbon with four bronze stars. Wish I could have learned from him, but he never did it at home. Steve Heart surgery pending? www.cabgbypasssurgery.com Heart Surgery Survival Guide ISBN: 978-1-935018-41-4 |
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Steve B wrote:
It's a standard/coarse thread 9/16" hole, 15/16" total outside nut. The damn nut is bigger than a walnut, so there's going to be a little work welding a cap in there, then trimming it all down to a workable size. I'll go to Ace and see if they have a thinner one that requires less machining. For what I charge, I could just go buy a new opener. Good thing this isn't for a real customer. Why do we do that? i have this same opener. it looks like it should be a standard nut. did you try all those little boxes at an ace hardware? seems i see these in yard sales a lot. buy another broken one for another $2 just for the nut. |
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"Steve B" wrote in message news It's a standard/coarse thread 9/16" hole, 15/16" total outside nut. The damn nut is bigger than a walnut, so there's going to be a little work welding a cap in there, then trimming it all down to a workable size. I'll go to Ace and see if they have a thinner one that requires less machining. For what I charge, I could just go buy a new opener. Good thing this isn't for a real customer. Why do we do that? Steve It's fun and challenging and most of all *Because we can*. Art |
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"Steve B" wrote in message news It's a standard/coarse thread 9/16" hole, 15/16" total outside nut. The damn nut is bigger than a walnut, so there's going to be a little work welding a cap in there, then trimming it all down to a workable size. I'll go to Ace and see if they have a thinner one that requires less machining. For what I charge, I could just go buy a new opener. Good thing this isn't for a real customer. Why do we do that? Steve It's fun and challenging and most of all *Because we can*. Art |
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"Artemus" wrote It's fun and challenging and most of all *Because we can*. Art I have been thought of highly many times after I repaired something, and pulled someone's ass out of the fire. It sure is nice to repair something, and keep on mowing (whatever), and not have to stop and go get it fixed or buy another widget for $$$$. And it's fun to create tools and toys. And fun just to create. I was going to build a tippy squirrel trap, based on a tube, gravity, and a tipping point of no return. Now, I think I'll do like they do in Britain. I'll build a maze, making them learn a section at a time, adding a section a week. Then, when they figure it out, I'll pull that little cotter pin on the final platform. Yes, I know. I'm sick. Steve Heart surgery pending? www.cabgbypasssurgery.com Heart Surgery Survival Guide ISBN: 978-1-935018-41-4 |
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On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:54:59 -0700, "Steve B"
wrote: "Artemus" wrote It's fun and challenging and most of all *Because we can*. Art I have been thought of highly many times after I repaired something, and pulled someone's ass out of the fire. It sure is nice to repair something, and keep on mowing (whatever), and not have to stop and go get it fixed or buy another widget for $$$$. And it's fun to create tools and toys. And fun just to create. I was going to build a tippy squirrel trap, based on a tube, gravity, and a tipping point of no return. Now, I think I'll do like they do in Britain. I'll build a maze, making them learn a section at a time, adding a section a week. Then, when they figure it out, I'll pull that little cotter pin on the final platform. Yes, I know. I'm sick. We need proof of that, so please YouTube it. -- The United States of America is the greatest, the noblest and, in its original founding principles, the only moral country in the history of the world. -- Ayn Rand |
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