Behalf Of VR Bass
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2000 8:49 PM
To: Multiple recipients of sslivesteam
Subject: Re: Ruby fasteners
> What the heck size are those little brass hex heads
They're made to some weird foreign measuring system -- it
sounded like "meat rack" or something.
Pretty clever way to make a socket wrench Clark. I hope that I can remember
that when I need it. I will probably forget and try to remove them with a
pair of Vice Grips.
> OR you can make your own socket by using the allen socket end of a
> Du-Bro cap bolt.
Clark, that's a great idea! I'll give it a try this weekend (my Ruby still
has a large number of the pesky things)
-vance-
OR you can make your own socket by using the allen socket end of a
Du-Bro cap bolt. Just take your hex head bolt to the hobby shop and try
out all the different Du-Bro cab bolts both US and Metric. One will
fit.
You put the bolt into a suitable holder and viola a custom hex socket
wrench. In
> What the heck size are those little brass hex heads
They're made to some weird foreign measuring system -- it
sounded like "meat rack" or something. .019 x 25.4 = 0.5 (more or
less) so that bolt head is .5mm across.
Check with the hobby shops in town -- lots of R/C cars and aircraft
use me
Attention ru-bo-philes...
What the heck size are those little brass hex heads that, for example,
attach the maker's plate to the cross beam, and the cross beam to the
frame? They measure .019 from edge to edge. Needle nose pliers just
don't cut it for tightening confidence (too loose? too tigh
