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just wasted a full day driving round bradford looking for a left hand threaded bolt for a dewalt mitre saw. i'd have had more chance of winning the euromillions. why are these things so hard to get hold of???

off to leeds first thing tomorrow.....there's a place that sells them over there, but if i order it over the phone there's a surcharge that amounts to 15x the price of the bolt.....?????????

world's gone mad.
 
what you need is the pitch, threadform and the O/D....once you have that then you will be able to get left hand threadforms from the local engineering supplies...
 
theres an engineerng supplies near to me..(you know bearings, oillite bushings and dowty seals n all, that lot)...so if you can get the O/D then i will get a L/H thread bolt..
I will need to know the O/D and the length...i reckon it will be a metric coarse...
 
theres an engineerng supplies near to me..(you know bearings, oillite bushings and dowty seals n all, that lot)...so if you can get the O/D then i will get a L/H thread bolt..
I will need to know the O/D and the length...i reckon it will be a metric coarse...


place that has 'em is on geldard rd. can't remember the name off hand. gonna get over there first thing.
 
im assuming the old bolt is lost ?
therefore you dont know the length , diameter , thread ?
in which case youre screwed without the part no.
 
im assuming the old bolt is lost ?
therefore you dont know the length , diameter , thread ?
in which case youre screwed without the part no.

not lost - just knackered. the prize-wit that i'm working with couldn't understand why he couldn't loosen it the traditional way (righty tighty/lefty loosey) and he just kept tightening it until it snapped.
 

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