thread checking string?

[steveo3002]

someone on the secret santa thread got a long wire with lots of little bits similar to bolts for checking unknown threads

anyone know where you get these ..or the correct name for them

thanks and merry christmas

 

[Stooge]

Sounds something like this? http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0048NTFFQ/ref=pd_aw_sims_1?pi=SL500_SS115

 

[PT Doc]

http://www.zorotools.com/g/Thread Measuring Gages - NO BRAND NAME ASSIGNED/00099580/

Enco has some also. Very handy for getting things right.

 

[kkinla]

Thread checker. SAE and MM. Go to Ebay and you can find them there. Happy Holidays

 

[GoodEnough]

You can just buy the nut and bolt pairs yourself. Might be cheaper?
Or, you can also buy a $26 thread chaser kit to get started on some common sizes.

and then just buy the bolts and nuts yourself.

 

[GoodEnough]

FYI, I ended up getting a thread restorer kit for $26
http://www.fleetfarm.com/detail/kastar-15-pc-metric-rethreader-kit/0000000030742
Includes 7 metric rethread die sizes-
M6x1,
M8x1.25,
M10x1.25,
M10x1.5,
M12x1.25,
M12x1.5,
M12x1.75

I think that is a good start.
I will fill in the gaps with loose nuts and bolts for .75c each.

Like these...
2 x .04
2.5 x .45
3 x .5
4 x .7
5 x .8

and maybe the rest from the other sizing set
http://www.threadtoolsupply.com/metric-thread-checker.html
7 x 1
8 x 1
10 x 1
14 x 1.5
14 x 2
16 x 1.5
16 x 2
20 x 1.5
20 x 2.5
24 x 2
24 x 3

 

[GoodEnough]

Or, you can just spend $30 and be done with it.

 

[river1]

http://www.threadtoolsupply.com/thread-checker.html

later jim

 

[rharman]

Rockler has them too. Metric & USA.

 

[jakemac]

I have them and LOVE them. They make checking thread size and pitch so much easier than trying to squint at a traditional thread gauge.

 

[woody 73]

A few years back I was walking around lowes in the nuts and bolt section of their store and I came across that thread checking string so I bought it. Now the funny part is not only do I use it all the time but I have never seen it again at any lowes stores...My only guess is that it must not have gone over very well with the other lowes shoppers.

 

[machine_punk]

Here is the one I like...exactly like the one at my local Ace Hardware, which has held up to years of people checking threads daily...
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They sell either all metric, all standard, or, as I bought, the mixed metric and standard. The mixed metric and standard has fewer sizes on it than the dedicated metric or standard, but it seems to cover pretty much everything I've ever checked at home.

The same company makes the version you usually see at HD...
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I highly recommend either one of these. I have the 'string' style at home. I got tired of trying to remember to take a nut or bolt with me to the hardware store to find out what size it was.

Kev

 

[Biomed]

I got my "Thread Checker" like member Machine_Punk has from McMaster. As I recall McMaster has both styles. Thread Tool Supply is the manufacturer and has a web site at http://www.threadtoolsupply.com/thread-checker.html.

 

[CNGsaves]

FYI, I ended up getting a thread restorer kit for $26
http://www.fleetfarm.com/detail/kastar-15-pc-metric-rethreader-kit/0000000030742
Includes 7 metric rethread die sizes-
M6x1,
M8x1.25,
M10x1.25,
M10x1.5,
M12x1.25,
M12x1.5,
M12x1.75

I think that is a good start.
I will fill in the gaps with loose nuts and bolts for .75c each.

Like these...
2 x .04
2.5 x .45
3 x .5
4 x .7
5 x .8

and maybe the rest from the other sizing set
http://www.threadtoolsupply.com/metric-thread-checker.html
7 x 1
8 x 1
10 x 1
14 x 1.5
14 x 2
16 x 1.5
16 x 2
20 x 1.5
20 x 2.5
24 x 2
24 x 3

So now you're a "bolt expert" and keep bolts in stock . . . . . EXACTLY OPPOSITE of your ridiculous thread where you say you were afraid of local hardware store, wouldn't drive to Home Depot, and wanted to buy bolts by mail order on the internet ??!!?!##@@%^!?!! Flat out in that thread, you say you'd never keep extra bolts around, and wouldn't even take them for free if GJer were to give them to you ??!!?!##@@%^!?!!

. . . AND . . . you don't have or know how to use a "vice" / vise ??!!?!##@@%^!?!!

Something is very wrong about this "picture" . . . . . . .

 

[Subyroo651]

So now you're a "bolt expert" and keep bolts in stock . . . . . EXACTLY OPPOSITE of your ridiculous thread where you say you were afraid of local hardware store, wouldn't drive to Home Depot, and wanted to buy bolts by mail order on the internet ??!!?!##@@%^!?!! Flat out in that thread, you say you'd never keep extra bolts around, and wouldn't even take them for free if GJer were to give them to you ??!!?!##@@%^!?!!

. . . AND . . . you don't have or know how to use a "vice" / vise ??!!?!##@@%^!?!!

Something is very wrong about this "picture" . . . . . . .

Yea, I'm sensing a pattern here as well. Asks for advice and never heeds any of it, just wasting others time pretty much. Almost every every thread