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Have you lost a BOLT, NUT or MACHINE SCREW around the house? This video from The Honest Carpenter will show you how to easily find a replacement using this FREE TOOL in hardware stores!
A THREAD CHECKER is a gauge tool that helps determine engineering details about nuts and bolts and machine screws. It's also called a NUT AND BOLT CHECKER, and a THREAD GAUGE.
The THREAD CHECKER acts as a patterned guide for testing various fasteners on it's nodes and receptacles.
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THREAD CHECKER HOW-TO:
1) If possible, bring in a bolt or nut identical to the one that you're missing. It may be another one that comes from the same piece of furniture or equipment.
2) Try turning the bolt into the threaded nut receptacles on the thread checker. If it's a nut, try turning it onto the standing bolt nodes.
3) Don't twist too hard! The fastener should spin down easily without deforming the metal threads.
4)When you have a match, take note of the little numbers below the receptacle.
5) The first number is diameter--measured in either inch fractions, standard gauge numbers, or metric.
6) The second number is Threads Per Inch (for Standard) or Thread Pitch (for metric.
7) Find the nearby fastener bin that displays numbers in the ranges that you need. Match the number from the Thread Checker with the number on the container.
8) Also measure for length! You can either do this by eye, holding your fastener up to others, or use the ruler on the Thread Checker.
WHAT IF YOU DON'T HAVE A FASTENER TO MATCH WITH?
--Consider bringing in the entire piece of equipment that lost the fastener (if it is small enough to carry). You can try threading fasteners into it on the hardware aisle.
--Or, get a variety of fasteners that you think might work, bring them home and test them. You can return ones that don't fit.
SCREWS VS. MACHINE SCREWS:
--Just remember that this thread checker works for bolts, nuts and MACHINE SCREWS!
--Machine screws are not the same as normal screws. This is why:
--Normal screws have a sharp, pointed tip--they can be driven into a material or surface using force.
--Bolts, nuts and machine screws need a counterpart to work.
--So, machine screws have a blunt tip, and work more like bolts.
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