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--- Quote from: shmokes on August 06, 2008, 09:08:14 am --- Does it come in a can or a tube? --- End quote --- It does come in tubes but mostly you'll get it thusly: |
| 2600:
What are you doing that you need to countersink a carriage bolt? Perhaps there is an easier alternative. |
| shmokes:
I want to be able to disassemble my cab so it can be moved in pieces. So instead of screwing everything together, I'm using carriage bolts on the panels, which attach to the base and beams/braces with nuts. There may be a better way to do it. I thought about using T-nuts, and counter-sinking them in the sides, but they were difficult to find locally in large numbers. Also, since I'm laminating the side-panels, I was slightly worried that someone might accidentally use the wrong bolt in one of the holes and dent or punch a hole in the laminate. I have pretty much no woodworking experience at all. Whenever I need to do something I just stare at my project and walk in circles around it until a solution pops into my head. Carriage bolts may be a terrible choice for what I'm doing, but it was the solution that popped into my head. So I tested it on some scrap wood and it seemed like it would do the trick. |
| shmokes:
Also, since I used carriage bolts to attach my joysticks, I used the same method on my control panels. I covered my control panels in laminate (Formica), and I didn't want anything showing but the buttons and sticks. So I recessed the bottom of the panels and bottom-mounted the joysticks, but countersunk the bolts on top so that I could put the laminate over the bolts, hiding my handiwork. |
| 2600:
How thick is the wood? How much is left after countersinking? Seems like there might not be much wood left to support what you are doing. Also, I would think that there is more chance for damage if you put a panel down (laminated and with the bolts in). If someone were to step on it or hit the bolt or something it may damage the laminate as well. For CPs, I recommend T-Nuts or threaded inserts (I think that's the name). |
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