Cuting down Nylocs

[Wendelspanswick]

There is absolutely NO need to justify a lathe. Life just isn't complete without one. I've lost count of the times mine has got me out of the claggy.

I well remember a very tearful niece one Christmas when she lost the dummy for her new doll - that's right, out I go to the workshop and turned her up a new one in brass. That was ages ago and she now has children of her own. In the intervening years there have been many more conventional problems solved using the king of machines

We moved into a house with a massive cast iron bath but no bath plug.
I bought various plugs but none fitted so I disappeared out into the workshop and reappeared 20 minutes with a piece of Delrin machined up as a bath plug. You'd think I'd produced a V12 engine from scratch from the look of astonishment on the families face!

 

[ajlelectronics]

If you are stuck I will machine them for you no problem

That's a very kind offer. I have been looking at the problem again. I could get a longer bolt in there I suppose, however, the standards were special order and I had to have 100. I looked at the original nuts and they would do, but I don't want to re-use Nylocs on suspension parts. The new nuts are deeper than OEM, so I don't see an issue with machining them to match OEM size. It will certainly be better to have the threads engaged in the nylon than not.

I'm intereseed in how they would be machined. Are they just held in the chuck and a tool cuts the face, or does is need something more substantial to keep it centred and also secure? It's been a long time since I had any experience of a lathe, probably at school!

 

[langy]

There must be someone with a lathe near you ? Take 5 mins to turn them down

 

[jordan1]

Shorten a bolt, no brainer.

 

[AndyStobbs]

If its 15/16 AF then its approx a 16mm shank?
The nut surely is just a means to keep the bolt from escaping, given the size of the bolt CSA and the fact its in double shear, says to me the bolt does all the work?

Just crimp your old nylocs in the vice or raise a burr with a chisel at the end if you're that bothered. Bolt up and move on.

 

[brightspark]

loctite nut lock

 

[normspanners]

www.tms-motorcycles.co.uk/store/products/list.asp?cat_id=42...by...

Triumph rear wheel spindle nut

14.1307 5/8" UNF SELF-LOCKING NUT (REAR WHEEL & S/ARM SPINDLE O.I.F) £0.95


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