On Monday 09 May 2016 09:06:39 Dave Cole wrote: > Gene, > Do you have any Rural King stores around you?
Never heard of them. Where are you that you have one of those critters nearby? > The local big Rural King is selling metric screws by the pound. > A little ironic I think; They should probably be selling them by the > Kilogram. ;-) BWG and a Chuckle. But probably wise since the Jane & Joe Sixpack's here have never been able to make sense out of the metric system. In the 70's (IIRC) when some brands tried selling gasolene by the litre, no one understood that about 4 made about a gallon, & the pump handles stayed clean & the station owners starved until they threw those meters in the ditch and brought back the gallon calibrated ones. To them, it clearly was not a problem that needed fixed. Had it been mandated for at least a year, us 'merican's would have coped or left it set where ever it ran out of gas... > That said; I doubt that they have 7mm screws if they are rare. But I > know they have 6 and 8 mm screws by the lb and for about the same > price as SAE sizes. I bought 2 ea 8mm1.25's in 25, 30, and 40mm lengths yesterday, and was about $8 poorer when shuffling back out the door leaning on my cane. So by the pound or kg sales of metric has not yet arrived in West Virginia. OTOH, what I can buy in Allen head caps are all the grade 12 equ to an SAE NC or NF bolt. I might pull the threads out of the hole, but have not put a stretch into one of them yet. The 6mm failed by pulling the threads out of the hole. Easy since that arbor is home-made, out of 3/4" rod from TSC's stock iron bin, pretty soft stuff in real life. 1065? I don't think its even that hard. If and when I ever get this block carved out and mounted in place of the compound on my 7x12, which will stiffen and help de-chatter the tool post mounting on my 7x12, I have some short lengths of mine shafting in 1.25" diameters, and will make a newer one with a 3/4" spud & driving faces at least 1.125" in diameter. But that stuff is seriously HARD steel. I made the spools for the dampers out of it, and on that 7x12, it wasn't easy and used up a $150 pack of chips for my turning tools making 4 of them. $pensive, but they did help, a lot. Education costs money I guess, regardless of how you get it. :) Thanks Dave. [...] Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Find and fix application performance issues faster with Applications Manager Applications Manager provides deep performance insights into multiple tiers of your business applications. It resolves application problems quickly and reduces your MTTR. Get your free trial! https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/302982198;130105516;z _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
