[TheForge] Machine screw size?

Jerry Frost akfrosty at mtaonline.net
Tue Jun 23 16:49:42 EDT 2009


Sounds like it's bottoming out in the hole to me, 
rather than a thread problem.

Frosty
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If it ain't forged
it ain't real.
Wrought iron is.
The FrostWorks

Meadow Lakes, AK.



From: "Jeff & Leslie" <barkingcrow at comcast.net>


> Today in a trash pile I found a little 1" wide blade, 
> plane.  I found three
> pieces, the body, the blade, and the "wedge" that 
> slips over the blade and
> tensions it when a screw is tightened thru this piece 
> against the blade.
> I'm trying to find the screw and nothing I have fits. 
> A 10 - 32 starts
> easily and then after 1/8" it won't go anymore.  I 
> don't have a metric that
> small so maybe that's it.  Anyone familiar with this 
> situation and have a
> guess as to what size it is.  I could run a 10 - 32 
> tap thru it, or go to
> lowes and see if anything fits.  Thanks,
>
> Jeff in WTF is it this hot Tallahassee
>



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