With a less cold shop, we tackled this small task. Don’t laugh — it’s only a humble nut! Needed a particular size to suit an old UK thread (3/8″ x 20 TPI BSF). The process, for something so simple, is a bit tedious due to the several stages. The ‘quick fix’ is to find a nut close enough in size, and drill it out and tap it! Here we did the slow way, working from solid with a piece of 3/4″ hex, which happened to be pretty hard material. Oh for CNC!
The objective: build the tallest vehicle I can fit into Mumbo’s Garage, give it one monster truck wheel, and try to drive it. It doesn’t last long unless I inflate the balloons that exist for the sole purpose of actually keeping the thing upright, and even then it’s barely drivable. But hell, that’s the whole point of this, isn’t it? =P