[TheForge] bolt thread repair tool

[Bruce .]

Yeah, I just checked the link.  $36.50 at Home Depot.  I'll pass.  The
triangular file worked okay, albeit slowly.

I just checked whether a small tubing cutter (suitable maybe to 1" OD)
would track the threads of a 3/8" bolt -- and it will.  The cutting wheel
is too sharp to be of any use.  Maybe one could grind it to a 60* edge and
then it would do some good.  Or perhaps one could just replace the wheel
with a non-rotating bit ground to the right shape.  I have no need right
now but may keep it in mind for the next time I do.

Bruce
NJ

On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 1:49 PM, Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer <
artgawk at thegrid.net> wrote:

> Don’t a couple or 4 ( metric & coarse/fine) of old time thread dressing
> files cover the same territory inexpensively?
>
> On Feb 22, 2015, at 8:02 AM, Rob Fertner <rfertner at cox.net> wrote:
>
>
> I've mentioned this website before. They've recently posted about a tool
> that may save the threads on a bolt. This may come in handy with old stuff
> you're repairing and you don't want modern looking bolts to spoil the look.
>
> http://toolguyd.com/threadmate-tools-repair-just-about-any-threads/
>
> Rob
> Wichita, KS
>
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