Bolt Wanted

Weatherlawyer

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Jan 14, 2007, 9:03:52 AM1/14/07

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Do me a favour:

If you have a power saw and the bolt for the blade is reverse thread
(screws in anticlockwise) can you please take it out and measure the
diameter of it. Also if it is for a 250 mm blad, measure the length of
it for me, please.

I am still looking for a bolt for my Boschmann chop saw. I think it is
copied from a Makita but anything that will fit will save me a few bob.
I tried looking on uk.rec.cars.misc and had quite a bit of help.
http://groups.google.com/group/uk.rec.cars.misc/browse_frm/thread/e2c0af208f8007dc/e487de390b12b229?lnk=gst&q=bolt+wanted&rnum=1#e487de390b12b229
This is a last ditch thing, as I want to stop falling over the bloody
thing maybe even take it to work.

One way or another it has got to go. I am getting seriously pissed off
with it.

Robbo

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Jan 14, 2007, 10:02:46 AM1/14/07

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"Weatherlawyer" <Weathe...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1168783432....@a75g2000cwd.googlegroups.com...

> Do me a favour:
>
> If you have a power saw and the bolt for the blade is reverse thread
> (screws in anticlockwise) can you please take it out and measure the
> diameter of it. Also if it is for a 250 mm blad, measure the length of
> it for me, please.

Firstly what has the length of the screw got to do with the diamteter of the
blade?

> I am still looking for a bolt for my Boschmann chop saw. I think it is
> copied from a Makita but anything that will fit will save me a few bob.
> I tried looking on uk.rec.cars.misc and had quite a bit of help.

Take the whole shebang to a local tool hire shop and ask the fitter to look
through his bucket of bolts and old machinery for one that will fit

> One way or another it has got to go. I am getting seriously pissed off
> with it.

It's winning you know......They do that Sir, especially when you aren't
looking.

Cicero

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Jan 14, 2007, 11:10:26 AM1/14/07

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Get a small wax crayon and wind it into the thread. Take your wax pattern
to a specialist fastener stockist - find in Yellow pages.

Alternatively measure the thread you've cut in the wax crayon with a
thread pitch gauge:

http://www.machinemart.co.uk/product.asp?p=060720157

Buy a short length of round bar and a suitable lefthand thread die:

http://www.drill-service.co.uk/threading-tools/Metric-Coarse-Left-Hand-Taps-and-Dies.htm

Weld a nut on to the end of the threaded rod you've created.

Cic.
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Weatherlawyer

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Jan 15, 2007, 10:56:04 PM1/15/07

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Robbo wrote:
> "Weatherlawyer" <Weathe...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1168783432....@a75g2000cwd.googlegroups.com...
> >

> > ,,,can you please take it out and measure the diameter of it. Also if it is for a
> > 250 mm blade, measure the length of it for me, please.
>
> ..what has the length of the screw got to do with the diameter of the blade?

?

If the saw is similar they may in fact be the same, in which case I can
order a reverse thread, 8 mm Xxxita bolt that is xx mm long and it will
be the right size for my Boschmann.

I thought that was obvious, sorry.