On Wednesday 27 June 2018 18:35:17 Chris Albertson wrote: > Metric bolts and nuts only use a few different thread sizes. This is > really a good thing and make using metric nuts and bolt easy. But if > you look around there are many metric threads that are not in nuts and > bolts just the common ones I've run into are the thin ring nuts used > to secure a toggle switch to a panel and some adjustments in cars and > other machines where the threads need to be finer than normal. And > then in eletronics there are many special purpose threads mainly > because the female part is in some thin material > > I just had to buy a 12x1.25 tap set, one taper and one plug type. I > had to cut threads for a proximity sensor. > I may even have such a critter. Possibly more than 1 even. I still have some decent sized metric stuff that I haven't made up yet. As I move to bigger grub screws, I am fine tuning the drill and tap depth so the grub screw has become pretty self-locking over the last half turn to a solid grip.
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 2:47 PM Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > As I work my way thru the smaller taps in some of my older tap kits, > > I'm finding a puzzle. I haven't been able, locally or online, to by > > an odd sized metric bolt above the even numbered 6. But I sure have > > a pile of pristine, never been dirtied 7mmx1.0 and 9mmx1.25's in the > > tap box now. > > > > Is this a conspiracy, and if so whats the point? > > > > Puzzles indeed. > > > > Thanks all. > > > > -- > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > -- > > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > >---------- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's > > most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > > _______________________________________________ > > Emc-users mailing list > > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
