Special nut answer

You won't buy a lathe to make this part?

jsw

"Jim Wilkins" wrote

You won't buy a lathe to make this part?

jsw

If I was to part with any cash right now, it would be for a plasma cutter. I'm a welder, not a machinist, and have a lot more use for a cutter. I would find it interesting, though, to find a machinist who had a lathe, and learn some stuff. My dad was a machinist all his life, a flight engineer in the US Army Air Corps. 13th Army, 307th Bomb Group. The "Long Rangers." South Pacific ribbon with four bronze stars. Wish I could have learned from him, but he never did it at home.

Steve

Heart surgery pending?

i have this same opener. it looks like it should be a standard nut. did you try all those little boxes at an ace hardware?

seems i see these in yard sales a lot. buy another broken one for another $2 just for the nut.

It's fun and challenging and most of all *Because we can*. Art

It's fun and challenging and most of all *Because we can*. Art

"Artemus" wrote

I have been thought of highly many times after I repaired something, and pulled someone's ass out of the fire. It sure is nice to repair something, and keep on mowing (whatever), and not have to stop and go get it fixed or buy another widget for $$$$. And it's fun to create tools and toys. And fun just to create.

I was going to build a tippy squirrel trap, based on a tube, gravity, and a tipping point of no return. Now, I think I'll do like they do in Britain. I'll build a maze, making them learn a section at a time, adding a section a week. Then, when they figure it out, I'll pull that little cotter pin on the final platform.

Yes, I know.

I'm sick.

Steve

Heart surgery pending?

We need proof of that, so please YouTube it. ;)

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