[Boatanchors] Stripped Screws - Ignore Alien Orders !

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

There are those among the Homo Sapien race, who for reasons as yet to be 
determined by the Clinical Psychologists at the Disney World animal health 
complex)  who derive great joy from crossthreading screws, mistaking a left 
hand thread pattern from a right hand one and always adding from 10 to 15 
additional foot pounds of torque to the manufacturer's clearly stated 
allocation! Maybe it is for the thrill of watching the threads peal off like 
overly ripe banana peelings or just to see how many additional foot pounds 
of torque can be applied before the tensile limit is surpassed and the "Salt 
Water Taffy" stretch marks bend the object into some diverse and fascinating 
geometrical shape.

Doing it the correct way just is not any fun for them anymore. So they give 
old Chubby Checker's big locomotion of anatomical parts from the late 
fifties and early sixties, AKA 'The Twist' some shake, rattle and roll 
motions. Just keep them out of your home based machine shop and away from 
sharp objects and any sandbox containing Limbo Rocks!

Happy tapping OM -

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "BLIMPY" <blimpboy at sonic.net>
To: <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2008 8:23 PM
Subject: [Boatanchors] Stripped Screws - Ignore Alien Orders !


>
> Ignore Alien Orders !
>
> For crying out loud... don't funk up your rare radios.. like a Johnson 
> Navigator with epoxy and toothpicks !
>
> I mean who told you this.. some toothless drunk in a trailer park ??
>
> What you do is buy a tap for the next size larger machine screw... 
> standard sizes are 6-32  ( eg # 6 screw, with 32 threads per inch or tpi), 
> 8-32 ,
> 10-32  or 10-24.
>
> Then you buy the appropriate NUMBER SIZE DRILL   ( info will be with the 
> tap).
>
> And you buy and inexpensive tap chuck.
>
> 1. drill out the hole
> 2,  Tap the hole with the tap.. using a small amount of oil.   Read info 
> on how this is done.
>
> 3.  Substitute nice new screws of the appropriate size for the newly 
> tapped holes.
>
> Everything you need can be bought at any good ACE hardware store.
>
> End of story.
>
> Larry
>
>
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