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Carriage Bolts
« on: May 10, 2003, 03:47:45 am »
I've done some reading around in the forums and I plan on using the 3/16" black carriage bolts to mount my joysticks but I'm wondering how to drill the hole for the carriage bolts.  I've seen in some threads that carriage bolts have a square or hex block under the head.  Do I have to use a countersink bit to make space for the square block under the head or can I just drill a normal hole to mount the carriage bolt ?  I have a feeling this has been discussed on this board before but I couldn't find it.

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Re:Carriage Bolts
« Reply #1 on: May 10, 2003, 12:51:27 pm »
If you are using a wood Control Panel, just drill the hole and when you tighten it, the carriage bolt will sink in and create it's own square.


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Re:Carriage Bolts
« Reply #2 on: May 10, 2003, 10:31:28 pm »
If you're wanting to sink into metal or platic, I recommend drilling the hole, then squaring it out with a grinding bit in a dremel.  If you try to tighten the bolt into plexi it will, more likely than not, crack.
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Re:Carriage Bolts
« Reply #3 on: May 11, 2003, 02:54:28 am »
Hmm.. now that I think about it I am going to mount the lexan on the cp using carriage bolts.  Is there a special router bit or dremel bit I can get to make holes for carriage bolts ?

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