Filing a slice of the locking nut

[Silverburst]

ah, a bench grinder... actually I have one, still in the box though, tssk. I guess you grind against the flat sides of the disk and not the front or it would be hard to maintain a flat nut bottom side.

And some heat resistant gloves

Thx for the insight man. Going to check that grinder out.

[Rich]

Finish against the flat side to true it up. All the real grinding is on the curved face. Most nuts you only need to take it off the bass side, the treble is usually fine. And if you grind it on the flat side the nut will end up convex. You need to overgrind the center so the flat grind is only grinding the ends, in to about 1/2".

I have a nut shim drilled so I can put it on the face, put the outer pad bolts in, and use a pair of channel locks to hold the nut using the pad bolts. And yes, it will be hot enough to steam water when you quench it to cool it off after.

[Silverburst]

Ok, I think you just saved me a nut and some plasters here. This is the stuff you normally only get to know after a bag of crippled nuts. Thx a lot Rich.

I'll better take this slooowly.

[Jem7RB MK]

Originally Posted by pmike

Ok, This is the stuff you normally only get to know after a bag of crippled nuts. I'll better take this slooowly.

Edited quote for hilarity :P

[Silverburst]

hehe. Slowly, where I meant, doing this by hand like Moonlight advised, and not with a grinder lol.

ok time-out.

[Silverburst]

Nutmeister Rich, in the meantime, you don't happen to have any pictures of some steps while you were fixing a nut ?

thanks

[Rich]

Only 2 hands here, and I need them both to steady the nut

[Silverburst]

We should get you a lovely assistant !

before, after and some in-betweens would be more than enough, but I know, once your set to grind... ah darn camera, ok next time or I'll get done with this.