Thread repair file

William_H said:
I am fascinated by the junk on your bench. Love it!! Is that a "claim to fame" or some kind of badge of office as DIYer? ol'will
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No it's a very messy bench, and is driving me up the wall, garage is too full so getting harder to put things away.

In my defence I will say I was "Just having a but of a play with the new toy someone had lent me", part way through altering some bits of plastic for dinghy valve cap retention rings, waiting to finish off servicing the trailer, waiting to get appropriate tools to repair threads on car and having to be careful because bits of boat were being varnished.
 
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Caraway said:
I have a thread file with finer TPI sizes than the one the OP has. A die doesn't always do the trick and anyway ,as had been pointed out, you need a shed-load (literally) of dies to suit all puposes.

I find it useful if the end of a thread is damaged as you can work up from the sound thread to create a well spaced set of threads. If you start a die on a damaged thread it can cut a new thread which won't join up with the sound thread further along.
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This one pictured has 8 pitches:
0.75, 1, 1.25, 1.5, 1.75, 2, 2.5 & 3.
Make Filon I believe. This one from PJS industrial supplies £16, no idea when bought.
 
Poignard said:
... old tobacco tins with odds and ends in but now hardly anyone smokes the supply has dried up. ... make do with Marks & Spencers peppermint tins ...
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Plastic carry out meal trays with lids have replaced tins these days.

Regarding thread files, I have 4 sizes and they never get used as the damaged threads I find on boat or motorbike can be fixed with a file, I have found. Thats not to say that one day they will not be used, just that so far, they are still unused after 30 odd years.
 
Poignard said:
Note the tobacco tin marked "Bits & pieces". I have loads of old tobacco tins with odds and ends in but now hardly anyone smokes the supply has dried up.

Now I have to make do with Marks & Spencers peppermint tins but they are not as durable:

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Boiled sweet tins? Except they’re circular and don’t store and stack so well.
 
john_morris_uk said:
Boiled sweet tins?
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I don't eat many sweets. Most of my M&S peppermint tins were given me by my former French teacher, whose husband was as fond of peppermints as I was of her.

I have bought various plastic 'organiser' boxes over the years but they usually get broken.

Opening a old Player's Medium Navy Cut tin evokes memories of happy times when one could smoke a pipe without offending others and without being aware of any great risk to one's health.
 
Poignard said:
I don't eat many sweets. Most of my M&S peppermint tins were given me by my former French teacher, whose husband was as fond of peppermints as I was of her.

I have bought various plastic 'organiser' boxes over the years but they usually get broken.

Opening a old Player's Medium Navy Cut tin evokes memories of happy times when one could smoke a pipe without offending others and without being aware of any great risk to one's health.
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With the sole intention of helping you concentrate on the pleasure of learning a second language, here's a picture to remind you of halcyon days of tobacco tins. These are in constant use at chez moi.

Far better to concentrate on the job at hand, rather than be preoccupied by the flashing eyelashes of a fair maiden. Topically, that could never happen in your office, could it ;)

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Skylark said:
With the sole intention of helping you concentrate on the pleasure of learning a second language, here's a picture to remind you of halcyon days of tobacco tins. These are in constant use at chez moi.

Far better to concentrate on the job at hand, rather than be preoccupied by the flashing eyelashes of a fair maiden. Topically, that could never happen in your office, could it ;)

Tabaco%20tins.jpg
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Benson & Hedges. There's posh.
 
The plastic carry out containers are nowhere near as robust as the Golden Virginia or Peppermint Tins. I have 3 or 4 Golden Virginia Tins in one tool box with bits in and a great fairly large peppermint tin in my working toolba with sleeving in.

The thread file did not sort the problem for me on this occasion, the bolts and maybe the captive nuts were HT steel, but I think it did help, in so much as it cleaned the threads in the captive nuts to the extent that when I used the specially purchased and expensive tap it appeared to follow the old thread and cleaned it up easily rather than cut a new one. I was a bit dim and toyed with the idea of buying a die to clean the bolts but brain engaged and I bought 4 new bolts. The tap was expensive because I got it from my wonderful local engineering suppliers who since Coid now don't open Saturday mornings otherwise I would have bought one then and saved myself this sorry saga.

£18 plus VAT Ouch so £7 per bolt to make a problem go away plus cost of machine screws, needs must and don't begrudge them on occasions like this because I frequently go in there for 10 nuts, bolts, screws etc. for odd repairs or projects, it takes them 10 minutes to get them and it comes to £2.75. In fact often I only want 2 but don't have the nerve to ask for only 2 so invariably have 8 of everything left over and that is probably why my garage is full. It's a case of use the shop or lose.
 
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Skylark said:
With the sole intention of helping you concentrate on the pleasure of learning a second language, here's a picture to remind you of halcyon days of tobacco tins. These are in constant use at chez moi.

Far better to concentrate on the job at hand, rather than be preoccupied by the flashing eyelashes of a fair maiden. Topically, that could never happen in your office, could it ;)

Tabaco%20tins.jpg
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St Bruno takes me back - my dad smoked that. But he died at the age of 66, and it probably was smoking related.
 
Old ice cream cartons, yoghurt pots and/or pill bottles do nicely, I've a collection of thick plastic pots which used to contain vitamins or Fish oil capsules that do as well.
 
Poignard said:
I don't eat many sweets. Most of my M&S peppermint tins were given me by my former French teacher, whose husband was as fond of peppermints as I was of her.

I have bought various plastic 'organiser' boxes over the years but they usually get broken.

Opening a old Player's Medium Navy Cut tin evokes memories of happy times when one could smoke a pipe without offending others and without being aware of any great risk to one's health.
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Ok we are all sold on the file, now I want more on Poignard’s French teacher
 
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