[TheForge] bolt thread repair tool

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

I woke up this morning ,
and there on my forehead,
in the mirror, amidst the wrinkles,
Was the word “Obsolete”
and the horse i rode in on

On Feb 22, 2015, at 2:32 PM, Mike Spencer <mspencer at tallships.ca> wrote:


> ...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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Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada       .~. 
                                                          /V\ 
mspencer at tallships.ca                                     /( )\
http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/                        ^^-^^
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