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I don’t know, I’de say your machining skills are coming along nicely.
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Cross threads are better than no..... oh. OH.
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If it makes you feel better, I once used pliers and a metal file to tear apart a door check arm that had a bolt with a machined head, because I thought it was a stuck screw.
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Scary!
What do those go to and how did they get like that?
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They’re AN bolts used to hold together a race car’s suspension system. I was checking all of them to make sure they were tight and may have over-done it.
But the bad part is I strip threads frequently and I don’t seem to be able to learn from it.
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So that’s what stripped threads look like!
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Yikes! I was afraid that they were suspension fasteners.
I’m a lot more mindful of torque than I used to be. If I’m not comfortable guessing, and can’t find a spec, I use this chart as a guide ( here’s a metric one ).
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Quite nice for a hand-lathe indeed!
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Thanks for sharing this. As soon as I saw the pictures I was about to link to the same thing.
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Thanks for the chart!
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You bet!
I can usually find the proper spec for whatever I’m working on, but every once in a while, that site comes in handy. The numbers sound about right, too. (80 lbs-ft for a coarse 1/2" grade-8 bolt? Sounds like a lug stud to me.)
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Yeah, it makes sense to me.
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