My experience is that it's quicker to make things like that than to find them.
Also cheaper and more satisfying.
If you have a lathe of course.
Oddball Automotive Fitting
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Re: Oddball Automotive Fitting
liveaboard wrote: ↑Sat Jan 22, 2022 9:23 am My experience is that it's quicker to make things like that than to find them.
Also cheaper and more satisfying.
If you have a lathe of course.
Yup. Sometimes it's time or money, and other times, it's cause the part you need, doesn't exist!
And there is also the case, of adapters that do indeed exist, but are very rare. Take a -14 ORB to -16 JIC adapter for example. They make 'em, but there's not many sitting on a shelf somewhere.
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Re: Oddball Automotive Fitting
My tractor has at least 3 different hydraulic fitting types; I used to waste time trying to find what I needed.
Online catalogs proved pretty bad; really difficult to know if I'm ordering the right part. Time wasted, aggravating.
On the other hand, 30 minutes on the lathe, cut some odd thread, shoulder or taper as required, or an Oring groove, feel good, maybe harden it just for laughs. A few cents worth of metal and the job can progress.
I keep a lot of rings of various types in house.
Online catalogs proved pretty bad; really difficult to know if I'm ordering the right part. Time wasted, aggravating.
On the other hand, 30 minutes on the lathe, cut some odd thread, shoulder or taper as required, or an Oring groove, feel good, maybe harden it just for laughs. A few cents worth of metal and the job can progress.
I keep a lot of rings of various types in house.