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Thread chaser/chase nuts

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Rob

08-09-2004 17:26:02




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Got some primer on the rim bolts on my 8n. Some of the threads were pretty rough anyway. Between coats, I shopped around the pawn shops, tool shops, and auto parts for chase nuts to clean up the threads. No nuts, but I did see one 5/8"-18 die....nearly $20.
Too tight to buy that especially since the guy described a chase nut (thread chaser). I've never seen one but I've heard of 'em. I have dies for the smaller size fastners.
Anyway, I took one of those hard Ford 5/8"-18 nuts and a hack saw blade to the vise. Took the saw apart, ran the saw blade through the nut, put the saw together and cut 5 slots equally spaced around the nut and square across the threads. Just a blade-width slot a bit deeper than the thread.
Went out and ran that nut onto the rim bolts, the paint and rust was scraped off the thread, fell out the slots and I was good to go with nice clean threads when I put it all back together. I put that nut back on too. I know where it is if I need it.
I guess I don't need to buy a $20 die or track down 'thread chasing' nuts to get it done.

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Bill in WI

08-10-2004 04:25:10




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 Thread chaser/chase Bolts in reply to Rob, 08-09-2004 17:26:02  
And for the other end of it, namely a tapped hole that needs cleanup, take a bolt to a bench grinder and groove it out. Try to have the side that will be doing the chasing as close to 90 degrees to the surface as possible. Do it on only one side, or it might be a challenge to get started into the hole straight. Think of a taps geometry, but with only 1 flute. Works great, and much harder to snap off than a tap.

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Rob

08-10-2004 04:47:14




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 Re: Thread chaser/chase Bolts in reply to Bill in WI, 08-10-2004 04:25:10  
I've been thinking you can do 'bout the same with a hacksaw blade too. Make a groove like one of those self-threading cap screws. You wouldn't have to make the groove but the first 7 or eight threads. Maybe two grooves.
Might seem odd but even doing dang near all my own work I've never owned a bench grinder. Sometimes I get to thinking I should get one but for 53 years I've never got around to it.

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TIMW(PA)

08-09-2004 19:06:40




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 Re: Thread chaser/chase nuts in reply to Rob, 08-09-2004 17:26:02  
Very good Idea. I was fortunate enough to pick of a rethreading file at a yard sale. They work great also. They are around twenty bucks, but they have eight different thread sizes on each file so if you break it down it isn't too bad



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Fessman

08-09-2004 18:00:43




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 Re: Thread chaser/chase nuts in reply to Rob, 08-09-2004 17:26:02  
Rob,

I like your idea on the hacksaw and nut. I'll have to try it sometime. What I like to do is leave paint in the threads. Think of it as a low cost pre applied thread locker. Then you don't have to worry about the nut loosening up. I actually found this out the hard way. I had 10 bolts that I had put back together. Five were on a pc that I painted, five were on an unpainted item. The unpainted ones loosened up, and the others did not.

Fessman

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Rob

08-09-2004 18:34:43




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 Re: Thread chaser/chase nuts in reply to Fessman, 08-09-2004 18:00:43  
I guess that would be a thread lock. I torqued these bolts to 150ft/lbs, good chance they will stay. I know they took some to get off there.



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Upper Peninsula, Mich

08-09-2004 17:58:54




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 Very Good Idea in reply to Rob, 08-09-2004 17:26:02  
Good thinking will remember this when I'm back in the woods at camp. Ron



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Rob

08-09-2004 18:42:04




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 Re: Very Good Idea in reply to Upper Peninsula, Mich, 08-09-2004 17:58:54  
I have a bucket full of rusty, dirty, buggered up large bolts and nuts. This way I might get to use some of that without having to go after it with a wire brush and file.
You can spend more than a couple bucks buying much of that big stuff.
Then there's New Holland who will sell you $9 and $12 bolts all day if you let 'em.



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