The problem with the radiors I have messed with is that there is not much clearance above the bolt head to remove it. I doubt the tip of the bolt would hit anything internally, but if it was longer than 255 mm or so (what I am using now) youu couldn't get it in our out. Jim On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote: > Mike, > > I apologize for leading you astray a bit, I just noticed that the bolt you > have has unthreaded portion under head (must be a fairly long bolt eh?) so > cutting that one short would not work. You should be able to get the rights > sized, fully threaded bolt at the HW store. > > good luck > > alistair > On 2012-12-13, at 8:34 AM, Mike South wrote: > > > Thanks Alistair--I had thought about just cutting it but I didn't know > what it would do to the bottom of the threads. Not that I know if I have > an M8 1.25 nut but I can get that when I go out today to try a actual > hardware store (last night I just went to the two home improvment stores > that are right next to each other and it was too late to go anywhere else) > and see if I can get an exact match. If not, I'll go with the hacksaw > method. > > > > I hope this list is still running when the zombie apocalypse comes. > > > > mike > |
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