We are faced with buying one (~$350) and would rather not. A long shot but, hey, don't ask, don't get. Thanks!

Andy

 

Anyone?

 

Got a tool rental shop anywhere around you? Also, I have been known to "Borrow" stuff like tools from friendly neighborhood large-scale hardware stores.
Check the phone book for tool rental. I can't throw a rock without hitting one whenever I cruise by my old neighborhood. Don't know my new part of town well enough yet to find one now though.

 

That seems like a very odd size, are you sure its correct? I couldn't even find one to buy in my industrial catalogs. I would imagine that there are no rentals of this size.

I would be curious to know where you have been able to source this item for purchase though.

 

Are you creating a new thread or repairing one? If you are just trying to repair the thread, would a 1.5mm thread file work? Seems like a big enough hole to get one in there and work it around. That would be MUCH cheaper. Or you could get a thread chaser, not a tap per se. They are much cheaper and do a better job of cleaning up damaged threads than a tap IMHO.

 

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Creating new one.


JHill: There is some confusion as to the proper size... that is the latest. Prototyping has its perils. I'll ask where he will buy one.

 

If you can get the part in a lathe, a machine shop could cut the thread no problem.

 

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IF they have the tap. Which is the current problem.

 

No, they can use the lathe and a thread bit. As long as the lathe has the gears for metric threads, and you have an internal thread boring bar.

 

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Ahh... just talked to my builder. He's been trying to do that but the machine shop isn't comfortable making that shallow of a thread on a very thin wall (we're building a strut). So we are now considering using a tap instead. And, you're right, JHill, it doesn't exist, we'd have to get that tap built by someone, hence the cost.

 

Is it easier to cannibalize a threaded trut and weld together (unless you are going for aluminum bodies, etc).

Seems like that size would be real close to the top of my '73 Celica struts, comparable to a Z car as well.

Scott

 

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Or just find a shop with a CNC Lathe. A CNC Lathe can cut any thread. If a shop's afraid to do it, just find another shop. It's possible.