On Sun, 06 May 2007 09:07:01 +0100, judith wrote:

|!I had really struggled to find some long (three quarter inch) cropped
|!bolts.

When I was an apprentice mumble years ago I *made* a tool to do this,
unfortunately metrication has made them useless. Must make a metric one.

Drill and tap a hole in a 1/4 inch thick bit if mild steel about 1 inch
wide. Saw through centre of the hole, lengthwise in mild steel. Put long
bolt in tapped hole. Put tool in vice squeezing shut saw cut. Hacksaw
bolt to length as required.
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