Greetings all; I am putting a cyclinder on the end because a 90 thou ball is too hard to do with the lathe tools I have, 95% of its measurements will be against the edge of a sheet of alu, 95% of which is 1/8" or thinner.
And I get a usable nose form, then discover the old one which looks like a 10-24 thread according to tap comparisons, but the threads on the oem probe are about 10 thou small, and while its a sloppy fit in the spider, is also small as hand turning a 10-24 tap into the plastic cleans the threads in the plastic up quite nicely. That same tap will not thread into the nut, and the nut, which looks like a dime store nut, will need to be held solidly if its threads are to be cleaned up to a 10-24 that actually fits the taps and dies I have 40 lbs of. Istr running into a 3/32x24 many years ago in a tv set, a 10-24 would screw in about a turn and then become self locking. So I had to hit the hardware store and buy a box of 3/32x24 stuff. AFAIK, no one has made a 3/32x24 bolt/nut in 40 years. So this will be 10-24 when I'm done. But a 10-24 will actually fit. I think, that incident was back in about '54? I should take it to the Antiques Roadshow. But I'm still determined to fix it and use it if I can. 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> _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
