Making your own locknuts?

[Martin]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otc2hwnTdYw

  OCD ? Or Genius? 

[yorkshire_spam]

56 minutes ago, Martin said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otc2hwnTdYw

  OCD ? Or Genius? 

I guess if it's an odd thread and size and you have the time and materials - why not? For me, life's too short. Find something off-the-shelf that'll do the job or is easy to adapt to do the job.

 

[Nick Jones]

Hmm….. on a practical level, what’s wrong with a dash of blue loctite?

Or hunting the right nut down on the internet? (He’s right, it’s oddball, might have to buy from the vehicle OEM)

If you have the skills and tooling, and necessary obsession level, then why not. Excellent, clear video.

[JohnD]

He lists the material used for the tool, but not the hex bar he made the nut from.  Would ordinary hex bar stock be as strong/stiff/resilient  as the metal for a nut?

John

[Escadrille Ecosse]

Yeah saw that. Thing though is that bar stock isn't the best for making critical application nuts. Grain structure isn't ideal.

All very skilled. But another one of these solutions looking for a problem in my view. Simpler, cheaper and quicker to just buy one. It'll be stronger too.

Now if he was smelting his own steel with the right properties and forging the blank nut it would be a different story.

[JohnD]

And mining the iron ore.   

[Hamish]

7 hours ago, Martin said:

OCD ? Or Genius? 

Yes

[Escadrille Ecosse]

1 hour ago, Hamish said:

Yes

No. Certainly NOT genius. Accomplished, competent. Ingenious even. But entirely derivative and not in any respect genius.

Genius is general relativity, determining that the diameter of the earth could be calculated from the shadow of a stick in the ground is genius. The decimal point, logarithms and calculus (as opposed to geometry). Watching the motion of Mars in the night sky and concluding that it must orbit the sun and not the earth is also genius.

Twin thread sewing machine, QWERTY, roller chain, bowden cable probably qualify too.

Making your own locknuts could almost be described as being anti-genius. More expensive and not as good. A bit like subsistence farming when you don't have to.

Edited November 7 by Escadrille Ecosse

[Hamish]

Ok I stand corrected. 
Probably why I’ve never touched a spinny cutty turny machine

[Escadrille Ecosse]

9 minutes ago, Hamish said:

Ok I stand corrected. 
Probably why I’ve never touched a spinny cutty turny machine

Sure you could cope Hamish. Doesn't take a genius to work a lathe. A bit of knowledge and practice. 

And a lathe of course.

Edited November 7 by Escadrille Ecosse

[yorkshire_spam]

I'll see your locknut and raise you a triode vac tube 

https://youtu.be/vsBhMw7Xlr0?si=fahW6ahN5T1p_FPw

[RogerH]

The only thing I would do different would be to spin the top of the nut to trap the nylon

 

Clever chap

 

Roger

[Nick Jones]

5 hours ago, yorkshire_spam said:

I'll see your locknut and raise you a triode vac tube 

https://youtu.be/vsBhMw7Xlr0?si=fahW6ahN5T1p_FPw

Wow! 
 

EMP resistant and DIY buildable….

 

Don't expect there are many videos on DIY transistor making?

[yorkshire_spam]

29 minutes ago, Nick Jones said:

Wow! 
 

EMP resistant and DIY buildable….

 

Don't expect there are many videos on DIY transistor making?

 Not many... but they do exist.

:-)

I'm more on-board with things like the triode vac-tube as a way of keeping old kit alive though. 

Sorry... (sideways) thread drift!

[JohnD]

When that tube video opened with the use of a Swiss Army Knife, and Russian text below, I felt sure this was an instructional video for the Fourth Dept. of the Red Army (Mil.Intel) on how to  make a clandestine radio.    Certainly the clunky kit that was later used looked Soviet!   But the chapter headings in  French?  Misdirection?  Or was this made for the French Resistance?    Gud Moaning!

Jean

[Nick Jones]

Think it’s French. There’s a little background spoken French on a couple of occasions. 
 

Likely is a Russian influenced as Russia persisted with the technology long after the rest of the world moved to solid state.

[Escadrille Ecosse]

French. And wonderful.

I particularly liked the way of sealing the tube under vacuum. Elegantly simple.

51 minutes ago, yorkshire_spam said:

I'm more on-board with things like the triode vac-tube as a way of keeping old kit alive though. 

Sorry... (sideways) thread drift!

Absolutely agree. And thank you for the drift.

 

[yorkshire_spam]

Not sure why it's on that YouTube channel, I saw it years ago and I'm pretty sure it was a French enthusiast doing it (or maybe Belgian?)