Random Thoughts - Part Deux [NO POLITICS]

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by ichitaka05

Huh never seen that style before. Is it work w all the different thread pitch? Or they have that specific ones for it?

The typical ones have eight different pitches cut into them. I have one imperial and one metric.

Originally Posted by Tcoat

If I couldn't clean it up with a good wire brush then it would have got thrown away and replaced.

Wire brushes don't get down into the thread. External threads are found plenty of places where replacement is impossible.

[soundman98]

Originally Posted by ichitaka05

Not sure anyone do this, but recently when I work on my car I start using this tool on all the bolts and nuts I've taken off. It helps reduce the cross threading or for me to snap bolt in half.

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

Harbor freight set can be sketch with their tolerances and finish. I still have that same set for imperial stuff. I sprung for the good metric ones back fifteen years ago. No contest.

exactly what i was going to say. i've got some pre-harbor freight tap and die sets-- same quality, probably the same factory, but different name.

i've snapped a few, and de-threaded a few others, thanks to the quality.

they're not much better than for chasing threads!

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

The typical ones have eight different pitches cut into them. I have one imperial and one metric.

Wire brushes don't get down into the thread. External threads are found plenty of places where replacement is impossible.

looking those up now.. they'll come in handy!

[ichitaka05]

Originally Posted by soundman98

exactly what i was going to say. i've got some pre-harbor freight tap and die sets-- same quality, probably the same factory, but different name.

i've snapped a few, and de-threaded a few others, thanks to the quality.

they're not much better than for chasing threads!



looking those up now.. they'll come in handy!

Really? I went through roughly 20~25 bolts & 10~15 nuts. Not one hiccup

[Sapphireho]

Originally Posted by humfrz

Now what could go wrong there -

Follow up with compressed air. If you don't clean them out good, and torque new head bolts, bad things can happen. I learned the hard and expensive way.

[soundman98]

Originally Posted by ichitaka05

Really? I went through roughly 20~25 bolts & 10~15 nuts. Not one hiccup

cleaning threads is very different than cutting threads. i was cutting

it also helps to have a firm grasp of the thread pitch and size(which i didn't at first)... though the quality of the set i have, an official m6x1.5 is more like a 5.65x1.49 internal, and a 6.13x1.49 external...

[Spuds]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

If I couldn't clean it up with a good wire brush then it would have got thrown away and replaced.

'I'm not a thread chaser' says the guy who posts in literally all the threads.

Ok I paraphrased. And maybe not ALL the threads, just like 90%.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Spuds

'I'm not a thread chaser' says the guy who posts in literally all the threads.

Ok I paraphrased. And maybe not ALL the threads, just like 90%.

Probably fewer than 50% actually. I have my favourite subjects that I post to but many many subjects that I have zero interest in and don't even read. The truly scary part is that I have read hundreds of posts for every one I have made.

[Sapphireho]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Probably fewer than 50% actually. I have my favourite subjects that I post to but many many subjects that I have zero interest in and don't even read. The truly scary part is that I have read hundreds of posts for every one I have made.

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[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Sapphireho

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When you can snatch the pebble from my hand it will be time to leave this place.

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Sapphireho

Follow up with compressed air. If you don't clean them out good, and torque new head bolts, bad things can happen. I learned the hard and expensive way.

Well, first off, there won't be anything (except air) in the hole left by the head bolt after you take it out. Now, if something gets in there, because someone is sloppy, if you screw a tap into the hole the tap isn't gonna bring it out - it will just smash it further into the hole.

However, I would agree with the compressed air - but just start and finish with that. Of course, if you did see yourself drop something in the hole, fish it out first.

Bubba has spoke -

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by humfrz

Well, first off, there won't be anything (except air) in the hole left by the head bolt after you take it out. Now, if something gets in there, because someone is sloppy, if you screw a tap into the hole the tap isn't gonna bring it out - it will just smash it further into the hole.

However, I would agree with the compressed air - but just start and finish with that. Of course, if you did see yourself drop something in the hole, fish it out first.

Bubba has spoke -

Helicoil®

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

Helicoil®

Well, ya, iffen you had already buggered up the hole.

But if you just dropped something in there, Bubba says just to use a tinker toy with a piece of well chewed bubble gum stuck on the end of it, to fish out the object -

Ain't it past your bed time , old man?

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by humfrz

Ain't it past your bed time , old man?

Yeah, but it's usually when I get my best ideas.

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

Yeah, but it's usually when I get my best ideas.

Poor mrs Ultramaroon -