10-28-2022, 03:59 PM
Latest delivery came in the mail today. I have had four strings of these "Thread Detective" sizing tools for some time now.
While they are great for checking the size of loose fasteners that you can easily spin into or over one of the gages, they are quite a pain to use for checking the threads of fasteners already mounted on a piece of equipment that can't be removed. Studs or nuts welded to a frame for example. You have to try to line up the threads and spin the entire cable full of gages round and round while it flops all over the place. Even worse if you are working in tight quarters. I wanted to separate the gages so that they could be used individually but I didn't want to just throw them all together in a bag or a plain box where they would get all jumbled together and possibly damage the external threads.
I talked to the master of 3D printed tooling boxes about it and he generously designed and printed the perfect solution for me. Thanks again Ed.
While they are great for checking the size of loose fasteners that you can easily spin into or over one of the gages, they are quite a pain to use for checking the threads of fasteners already mounted on a piece of equipment that can't be removed. Studs or nuts welded to a frame for example. You have to try to line up the threads and spin the entire cable full of gages round and round while it flops all over the place. Even worse if you are working in tight quarters. I wanted to separate the gages so that they could be used individually but I didn't want to just throw them all together in a bag or a plain box where they would get all jumbled together and possibly damage the external threads.
I talked to the master of 3D printed tooling boxes about it and he generously designed and printed the perfect solution for me. Thanks again Ed.
Willie