Andy, I wasn't kidden (although I happen to own a bent drill to bore around the corner in tight spots ;-). I have a (that is, one piece) 5/16" x 18 tpi bolt here from my junk screw box - I'd never throw away a bolt or srecw. Must be a common thread in imperial country, though. The threads are 7.8 mm in diam. and it has an inside hex or socket head (we call it Inbus head over here) with 11 mm OD. Turn the shaft down to 6 mm, so all the threads will be gone, and reduce the head to 10 mm OD. You can also face it off by two mm to reduce its height. Now, this piece resembles exactly a 6 mm socket head bolt. The hex key mesasures 7/32", about 5.6 mm. There is your raw part to cut the threads, and, alas, you have a metric 6 mm bolt with an imperial 7/32" hex head. Best regards Peter
Am 28.01.2013 11:20, schrieb Andy Pugh: > > On 28 Jan 2013, at 09:38, Peter Blodow <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Mmmh, twenty odd answers - and nobody had the idea of simply and quickly >> making those few bolts on the lathe? > Gene, do you want my hexagonal boring component for the sockets? > My latest attempt turned out really well. > (Look for my BS0 dividing head mod on cnczone) > > For small quantities of bolts like this you can generally find someone > selling small packs on eBay at acceptable prices. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, > MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current > with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft > MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnnow-d2d > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
