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Not sure that is correct. I know a 91 toyota pickup has m10 or m11 fine thread seatbelt bolts because we had to find some of sufficient grade (10.9, 11.9, or 12.9 ISO property class) to fix aceofsnett's truck. And I am pretty sure jeeps use metric as well... with some goofy huge t45, t50 or so torx head.
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kastein posted:Not sure that is correct. I know a 91 toyota pickup has m10 or m11 fine thread seatbelt bolts because we had to find some of sufficient grade (10.9, 11.9, or 12.9 ISO property class) to fix aceofsnett's truck. And I am pretty sure jeeps use metric as well... with some goofy huge t45, t50 or so torx head. Yeah, torx heads are common on seat and seatbelt hardware, but torx is ISO 10664 and unrelated to SAE and metric. An M11 fine should also be stronger in tensile and shear strength than 7/16 SAE, I've just never encountered it as far as I can remember.
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Nov 24, 2012 18:16
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Size is meaningless without a strength rating/grade.
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Nov 24, 2012 19:00
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InitialDave posted:Size is meaningless without a strength rating/grade. Correct, that's why we talk Grade 5, if you bother to look a page back. Futhermore it's not meaningless if we talk bolts of comparable strength but different configurations as in SAE vs Metric/DIN. Sir Cornelius fucked around with this message at 19:20 on Nov 24, 2012 |
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Nov 24, 2012 19:18
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Ok, I'll assume that you mean 8.8 for the metric and grade 5 for the imperial then, sorry. The Torx standard is just the wrenching configuration, though, it doesn't really mean anything for the bolt itself. You're correct about ISO 10664 being the same as the proprietary Torx standard for all relevant purposes, though. The differences between them are of no importance unless you're a fastener manufacturer.
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InitialDave posted:The Torx standard is just the wrenching configuration, though, it doesn't really mean anything for the bolt itself. Like I wrote a couple of posts back.
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Nov 24, 2012 19:46
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I read it as you were saying that Torx was a fastener standard unrelated to SAE or metric. I'm obviously having an off day on the reading comprehension front, don't worry about it.
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InitialDave posted:I read it as you were saying that Torx was a fastener standard unrelated to SAE or metric. I might have expressed it incomprehensible. English isn't my first language. Our misunderstandings are probably not your faults entirely. I'll try to express things more concisely and precise. Peace out 
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Nov 24, 2012 23:44
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Walmart has a 150 piece Stanley socket set for $44--looks like a good basic set for really cheap: http://www.walmart.com/ip/Stanley-150-Piece-Socket-Set/21812626
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My apologies about the torx derail, I mentioned it because I couldn't think of the metric thread size on those particular bolts. Almost every body bolt on a modern (mid to late 80s or later) jeep is metric.
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Any recommendations for a reciprocating saw? Need to cut the flex pipe off my brother's Camry and clamp a replacement in. I have an air compressor and cut off wheel but I'd have to unbolt the exhaust from the header and when I did it on my Camry one of the bolts or nuts stripped so I'd like to avoid doing that.
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Ever seen those "cutting wheels on a chain" thing? Canadian Tire up here loans them out as a specialty tool for removing exhaust. Basically there a bunch on small cutting wheels mounted on a chain. You wrap this "chain" around the exhaust and clip it back to the set of handles the chain is mounted to (fixed on one handle, a clip mounting spot on the other handle so you can manually place the chain at the desired slack). As you squeeze the handles, the slack is taken out of the chain and the cutting wheels press tightly to the exhaust. Then you just work it back and forth squeezing the handles until the pipe is cut.
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mod sassinator posted:Walmart has a 150 piece Stanley socket set for $44--looks like a good basic set for really cheap: http://www.walmart.com/ip/Stanley-150-Piece-Socket-Set/21812626 I have a Stanley set that I've used for years almost without fail. Looks similar to this set except I don't have the bits, keys, and spanners (mine's the ratchets and sockets only). I've had to replace the 3/8 ratchet after the drive twisted off by me jumping up and down on several feet of cheater pipe attached to it, which was also after I twisted a drive adapter on my breaker bar + cheater doing the same thing. So these will take abuse and would be a great starter set or for your junkyard bag.
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grover posted:That's not really a battery charger so much as a battery maintainer to keep your battery from slowly draining while garaged; would take forever to recharge a drained battery with that and you're likely to burn it up if you try. If you can't get something like this, you might as well just save your $5 and get a jump-start. It's not designed to. It doesn't trickle if the battery is under 10v, and stops at about 13.2v. It's designed to keep those new fangled cars that draw a few mA in storage to keep from draining the battery to a state of death while they sit neglected, it is not intended to be a 'charger'. I will fight you to the death if you talk poo poo about these. I own six, and have given them as gifts to people who leave their cars (undriven) outside for the winter. Saved at least two batteries so far.  mod sassinator posted:I like the extendable ratchet too: http://www.harborfreight.com/3-8-eighth-inch-x-1-4-quarter-inch-dual-drive-extendable-ratchet-98802.html I bought one of these, and used it extensively during the NG900 rebuild for superficial and non-rusted stuff.
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Sockington posted:Ever seen those "cutting wheels on a chain" thing? My great uncle was a plumber and used the same device to cut pipes. I think I have one of them in a box at my mom's house.
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Rhyno posted:My great uncle was a plumber and used the same device to cut pipes. I think I have one of them in a box at my mom's house. A quick google search gives the picture: 
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Sockington posted:A quick google search gives the picture: That's pretty much the same thing except mine is 70 years old and rusty. Looks like something you'd see in a SAW or HOSTEL film.
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Sockington posted:A quick google search gives the picture: Looks like a string of those wheels from a brake line cutter.
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Guess who got a plasma cutter and a Honda genset, that's to zoro tools 40% off sale?
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sharkytm posted:Guess who got a plasma cutter and a Honda genset, that's to zoro tools 40% off sale? Well, don't leave us hanging.
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veedubfreak posted:Well, don't leave us hanging. One hint: it's not tt. It's me! Eu2000i generator and a thermal dynamics cut master 42: 1400 shipped.
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I'd love to have a plasma cutter, but I blew my wad on buying a welder.
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Anyone have a suggestion for a decent power/air caulk gun? I'm looking into getting my father in law one for Christmas, he restores and resells salvage title cars and has been having trouble with windshield sealant lately (he's in his mid-60s.) McMaster-Carr has a battery operated unit for $300 and an air-powered one for about half of that. He has a big fuckoff I/C air compressor so he can definitely run the air powered one, but I could see how the battery operated one would be nice for use outside of his garage.
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Bought a badass set of prybars today. I had been using this Princess Auto piece of poo poo and the handle snapped off while I was pulling on it, yesterday, resulting in me falling on my rear end. Nobody saw it.  That's because the loving bar only goes into the handle about an inch! I can't complain too loudly though because I only paid three bucks for it.  The new ones' bars go the full length of the handle, and have steel caps for hammering on. I already used the little one today, pulling hubcaps off a van for changing to winter tires 
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Geoj posted:Anyone have a suggestion for a decent power/air caulk gun? I'm looking into getting my father in law one for Christmas, he restores and resells salvage title cars and has been having trouble with windshield sealant lately (he's in his mid-60s.) You mean a grease gun, not a caulk gun, right?
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eddiewalker posted:You mean a grease gun, not a caulk gun, right? The make power caulk guns too. The choice of air or battery largely comes down to what it's being used for. General contracting/home repair? Battery. Garage only work.....may as well go with air if you already have a nice compressor and all that.
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Motronic posted:The make power caulk guns too. Oops, I missed the windshield part and forgot that normal peoples' cars don't have that so many greasepoints.
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There's something like 14 of them on a GM Astro van IIRC... it's a really big number, that I know. Used to have one customer that actually requested grease to every fitting every time he came in for an oil change, most people didn't care. I don't even know how many are on my M54A2 - I find more every time I look at it. I really need to get a good grease gun when I fix that thing again, I used an entire tube of grease (the big ones like a foot long) last time.
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Geoj posted:Anyone have a suggestion for a decent power/air caulk gun? stevobob posted:I had been using this Princess Auto piece of poo poo and the handle snapped off while I was pulling on it, yesterday, resulting in me falling on my rear end. Nobody saw it.  Just like I never went flying onto my rear end while pulling the ball adapter out of my Draw-Tite once
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I just registered at zorotools so I never, ever, ever miss a 40% off everything sale again. I could have been the proud new owner of a tig welder. Chauncey fucked around with this message at 05:39 on Nov 30, 2012 |
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nmfree posted:Both Milwaukee and DeWalt make battery-powered caulk guns so if he already has any tools in those ecosystems it would make more sense to me to get one of those rather than having to drag an air hose around everywhere. Similarly, no one has ever seen my car fall off the jackstands twice while trying to move it around the garage 
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veedubfreak posted:Similarly, no one has ever seen my car fall off the jackstands twice while trying to move it around the garage All my neighbours got to see this one  Learned a harsh lesson that day. I've also driven over a bunch of those folding steel wheel chocks. Luckily they still work.
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ExplodingSims posted:Maybe I just don't get the Harbor Freight mentality 'cause the nearest one has always been like a hour and a half away, but is gambling and having to drive back to store constantly really better than just coughing up the extra cash for a higher quality tool? I love HF. Though you may be right -- my local store is close enough that I could probably return a power tool while standing in my yard if the wind was right and I swung it by the cord to throw it. Maybe I've just been lucky -- I have two angle grinders, a $20 one from Harbor Freight and a fancy Makita my dad gave me for Christmas one year, both subjected to similar abuse; the Makita, I've had to put down because it got uncomfortably hot (while wearing welding gloves), but the HF one has taken everything I've thrown at it without complaint. Hummer Driving human being posted:Aside from air tools and compressors, what 10 or so tools could accomplish 50% or more of regular automotive maintenance work?
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Delivery McGee posted:No toolbox is complete without a 3-pound hammer. No man is complete without a 20 pound sledge. Add a twisted wood splitting wedge, and you're guaranteed to never make one of those "I found a safe but can't find the key/don't know the combination lock code"-threads that almost always ends in agony and despair and suffering.
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I don't trust the handles on those anymore after breaking the "hardwood" handle off a harbor freight carpenters hammer... by throwing it. Head hit the ground, handle broke off. This is the BFH (Big Fuckin' Hammer) in my toolbag. http://stanleytools.com/default.asp?CATEGORY=SLEDGE+HAMMERS&TYPE=PRODUCT&PARTNUMBER=56-220&SDesc=4+Lb.+Jacketed+Fiberglass+Blacksmith+Hammer It does everything from brutalizing expensive things near the item I intended to hit, to blackening my thumbnails, to destroying everything, as well as driving chisels like a boss and separating tie rod ends and balljoints better than any pickle fork ever would. Great for knocking out broken lug studs too. Buy a big hammer and throw out your pickle fork: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDsci-izhhc I really wish I knew where the REALLY big hammer I had once (no really, the head weighed 10-20lbs and it had a chunk of 3/4" solid square steel bar welded into it as a handle) went. Sometimes the 4 pounder isn't big enough and I really have to apply some violence to a problem.
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Any suggestions on gauge inflators? I was going to get my father one of the classic Milton inflators, but would be open to something else if there's a better/more robust option out there.
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kastein posted:I don't trust the handles on those anymore after breaking the "hardwood" handle off a harbor freight carpenters hammer... by throwing it. Head hit the ground, handle broke off. Dunno about harbour freight, but Princess auto has small 2-3lb sledges that are all metal with some rubber molded around the handle.
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fatman1683 posted:Any suggestions on gauge inflators? I was going to get my father one of the classic Milton inflators, but would be open to something else if there's a better/more robust option out there.
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Lowclock posted:Does your father run a shop or something? I just have the cheap harbor freight dial gauge one and it works great. I have this one and it kind of sucks. It works OK, but you have to hold the air nozzle in place on the tire stem, or it leaks. It would be awesome if the drat nozzle didn't suck so much. 
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I like Harbor Freight's dead blow hammer: http://www.harborfreight.com/3-lb-neon-orange-dead-blow-hammer-69002.html They're awesome around the home for putting together Ikea furniture or flattening chicken breasts too!
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