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8th September 2014, 18:14 | #1 |
This is my second home
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first attempt ended in failure
A few weeks ago I bought a tap and die set. My daughter had a problem with her cycle, a thread had stripped. Agh Ha my chance. In goes the tap, a couple of turns and.... opps. The hole I'm trying to tap is not a hole in the frame but an insert, a Riv-nut.
A Riv-nut is a mixture of a Rivet and a nut. It is inserted like a rivet but is threaded down its centre like a nut. My blessed tap is not stuck in the Riv-nut, the Riv-nut turns with the tap. Fortunatly the Riv-nut was some aluminium and I was able to get a very small screw driver down the flutes of the tap and open the Riv-nut so I could get my nice new tap out. what a failure macafee2 |
8th September 2014, 18:52 | #2 |
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I think most of us who have ever used a tap has done that Ian. Now I'm not in the trade I miss certain things, a lathe, bench grinder, welder, and TAPPING GREASE!
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9th September 2014, 07:46 | #3 |
Gets stuck in
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Ha ! Remember that !
Can't beat a dab of good old Trefolex on your tool! https://www.cromwell.co.uk/TRX7033500A
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9th September 2014, 18:38 | #4 |
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thanks XPart2 I knew I needed something eventually but had no idea what to get
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9th September 2014, 18:45 | #5 |
I really should get out more.......
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Hi
I can understand you missing you old job I used to be a maintenance engineer now I clean streets for Wakefield council Really miss working with my hands, making and repairing things. Just lucky to have a job I suppose Regards Steve |
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