Cutting down flat head screws ie those on sockets

[RF Lighting]

I don't beleive a single thing you write

 

[holmslaw]

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[londonboy]

wooo 5 pages

 

[ban-all-sheds]

I would llike to know exactly where he lives.

I'm contemplating moving to a completelly different area of the uk, but I would like to be assured that I was at least 100 miles away from the hole that he lives in.

It says London in my profile.

Unlike you I don't lie.

 

[mikhailfaradayski]

what we need is someone who can interject with an even more pedantic view point to really drag this out. Preferably, someone who doesn't reed two good.

Since when has a nut (or heaven forbid a file ) been the correct way to repair a damaged thread!? Get off your horses, get a proper lathe to machine the screws shorter with a square face, then run a die up the damn thread.

134.1.1, anybody?

nice1 Liam, thats exactly the sort of thing i was thinking about

 

[Goldberg]

Mk and decent screws, etc are chamfered at the ends I thought , so they dont damage the wires if they accidently hit them

The best ones aren't just chamfered - they also have a significantly long threadless portion to make it easy to locate the screw in the threaded hole.

Bans way is good for the thread but dont chamfer the edge.
I use Bans way to cut studding but usually still also file a chamfer.
I thought it was normal for any Metal worker not to leave a sharp end of thread.,

This is pretty much the only relevant point on the entire topic - no decent engineer would leave a sharp edge on anything metal having cut it. Using a nut doesn't achieve the same effect as a file, so it isn't an alternative.

 

[holmslaw]

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[bernardgreen]

It seems some nuts are screwing the most out of this thread.

 

[johnnykc]

6 pages? surely...it can't get to 6 pages! come on....we're nearly there.

 

[mikhailfaradayski]

i have nothing constructive to add,



except maybe



gratutious spacing





6, c'mon baby, lets have 6

 

[ColJack]

are we really that sad that we're trying to turn a simple discussion on methods to cut and dress a screw into a 6 page load of drivel and useless posts?

 

[ColJack]

as it's 15 replies to a page, and this is number 12, we need 4 more replies to make it into 6 pages..

 

[mikhailfaradayski]

Col, i hadn't realised that, thanks.

3 more to go.

 

[ColJack]

it's not rocket science to count the number of replies on each full page is it?

 

[mikhailfaradayski]

No it isn't, it just that i'd never actually bothered to count the number of posts to a page before now.

not long now