Surveyors tripod thread
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militaryoperator
What was the thread on the locking screw on these surveyors tripods?
Need to start making the mount for it.
Ben
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Clint Sharp <cjaysharp@...>
Wikipedia suggests 5/8" 11tpi
On Fri, 30 Oct 2020 at 12:04, militaryoperator via groups.io <Military1944=aol.com@groups.io> wrote:
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militaryoperator
Thanks Clint.
Off to the shed.
Ben -
Sent: Fri, 30 Oct 2020 12:25 Subject: Re: [UKMicrowaves] Surveyors tripod thread Wikipedia suggests 5/8" 11tpi
On Fri, 30 Oct 2020 at 12:04, militaryoperator via groups.io <Military1944=aol.com@groups.io> wrote:
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Clint. M0UAW IO83
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Greetings! From my father's "accumulated treasures" I inherited a 5/8" Whitworth thread tap which works a treat in the application you are describing! --Doug, VK4OE
On 30/10/2020 11:32 pm,
militaryoperator via groups.io wrote:
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militaryoperator
Greetings!
From my father's "accumulated treasures" I inherited a 5/8"
Whitworth thread tap which works a treat in the application you
are describing!
--Doug, VK4OE
Gud on ya Cobber...........
I'll be using a nut, cut into a wood plug to fit the inner hole with a plate over it to secure it, wood panel on top with lazy susan on top of that on which to sit the dish and rig.
No CNC here just a Junior Hacksaw and Black Country Screwdriver.
Bonnza, Ben
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Colin Ranson
From: militaryoperator via groups.io
Sent: 30 October 2020 22:08 To: UKMicrowaves@groups.io Subject: Re: [UKMicrowaves] Surveyors tripod thread
Greetings! From my father's "accumulated treasures" I inherited a 5/8" Whitworth thread tap which works a treat in the application you are describing! --Doug, VK4OE
Gud on ya Cobber...........
I'll be using a nut, cut into a wood plug to fit the inner hole with a plate over it to secure it, wood panel on top with lazy susan on top of that on which to sit the dish and rig.
No CNC here just a Junior Hacksaw and Black Country Screwdriver.
Bonnza, Ben
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militaryoperator
Ben,
You mean a Brumigen screwdriver ?
Colin
No, I don't hail from Birmingham, I am from across the white line outside the Hawthorns so in the real Black Country (sic).
Ben
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Neil Smith G4DBN
I recall a certain training officer at PO Factories Division demonstrating the use of such a tool to tighten and loosen a five-eighths Whit nut on a stud. It was the slightly specialised one-and-a-half pound ball-pein variant rather than the cross-pein I would have expected. It did have a suspiciously well-polished head with almost no chamfer. Doubtless that modification was a sneaky bit of legerdemain to ensure an effective bite. Neil G4DBN
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Colin Ranson
Ben The missus does Hall Green, Old chap worked for Lucas And BSA.
Colin
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From: militaryoperator via groups.io
Sent: 31 October 2020 11:03 To: UKMicrowaves@groups.io Subject: Re: [UKMicrowaves] Surveyors tripod thread
Ben,
You mean a Brumigen screwdriver ?
Colin
No, I don't hail from Birmingham, I am from across the white line outside the Hawthorns so in the real Black Country (sic).
Ben
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