Bolt for offset holes.

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Bolt for offset holes.

Post by RGSP » Tue May 22, 2018 12:14 pm

We all get hole positioning wrong sometimes. Here is a possible solution.
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Re: Bolt for offset holes.

Post by Lopez Mike » Tue May 22, 2018 12:28 pm

I have people bring bolts like that into the shop once in a while.

"Can you make me one like this?"

"It will take me a few minutes with a hammer."
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Re: Bolt for offset holes.

Post by RGSP » Tue May 22, 2018 3:31 pm

Lopez Mike wrote:I have people bring bolts like that into the shop once in a while.

"Can you make me one like this?"

"It will take me a few minutes with a hammer."
Just between ourselves, this one took well into the hundreds of blows of a 14lb sledge, before its twin broke.
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Re: Bolt for offset holes.

Post by Lopez Mike » Wed May 23, 2018 2:44 am

Just between you and I, my grandmother used to refer to such a tool as an Irish Voting Machine. From her I was exposed to an endless supply of Celtic jokes.
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