Date:         Thu, 13 Dec 2012 11:35:30 -0600
Reply-To:     Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Longer bleeder screw safe?
Comments: To: Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca>
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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
>