On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 4:28 AM, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > > I don't think my tap collection includes that one, and #12 screws seem to > have become an endangered specie over the last 50 years. ISTR one of the > ancient equipment racks we have at the tv station was tapped 12-24 & it > took Ace Hdwe about 6 weeks to find me a box of them 25 years ago. > > I have some 6x1mm bolts, I'll clean one up and see if it will fit the hole. > If that flies, I might try to bore a socket head to 1/4-28, run a #60 drill > thru it and use an American fitting. I also have not stopped at NAPA, > where, due to the metrification of the auto industry here, they may have a > 6mm zerk with an American sized head on it. The chinese versions head is > about 0.021" smaller OD, and a different profile that doesn't even try to > fit our grease gun sockets. No place in my touring last evening had a > grease gun tip for the std 1/8" pipe grease guns that had any mention of > the word metric on the blister pack card. > > Frankly, my country is becoming a fossilized 3rd world island, Zimbabwe is > the only other holdout to all metric. I think the word is PIMA? IMO, > tooling wears out, and when it wears out, replace it with metric equ's and > be done with it. But some fossil like me in a corner office that > represents TPTB, can't think in metric. Don't these folks ever retire? > >> No metric threads in that size are coarser than 1mm. > > Good to know, thanks Andy. > > Cheers, Gene
Gene, Are you sure it's a grease zerk fitting and not an oiler zerk fitting? Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
