[TheForge] Re: bolt thread repair tool

[Mike Spencer]

> ...look up thread files -- the old time solution.  They are square
> bars with 4 lines of toothed "files" spaced according to the thread
> size embossed at each end of each bifurcated side. You have to pay a
> bit of attention to the angle of attack.

Jeez, not *another* item I take for granted that is now an anti-queue
that nobody under 30 has ever heard of? 

I have one of them.  It's been real handy maybe three times in the
last 40 or so years.

I was really annoyed when I went to the local hardware store, a better
than average one that is *not* dedicated chiefly to plastic dishpans and
little packets of 6 screws, and the under-40 clerks have never even
*seen* copper window-screen wire (which I know they were selling circa
mid 70s or later).  Same for waterglass.  Feh.



- Mike

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