[Noisebridge-discuss] Help with mini lathe, please!

[Roque y Seba]

Thanks everyone for the response. NB is a great community!  Harrison&Bonini didn't have them. The only one that had them was Mr. Metric in San Jose. In the end I figured an alternative and was able to meet my deadline. Cheers!

Roque.

 

On Jun 3, 2011, at 6:14 PM, Andy Isaacson <adi at hexapodia.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 07:50:52PM +0000, Roque Lopez wrote:
>> I am very, very new to noisebridge. My first encounter: maker faire,
>> second: a great soldering workshop with Mitch Altman, last saturday..
>> so I am looking forward to get more and more involved... however, for
>> the moment, I need help from someone who knows how to operate the mini
>> lathe.
>> 
>> My issue: I totally under estimated how difficult it would be to find
>> metric bolts locally. Specifically I need three eye bolts (or similar
>> lifting device)... metric thread M4x0.7... 8 to 12 mm length. I need
>> to get ahold of them by Friday, at the very latest. After looking
>> online and calling many hardware stores, I cannot get these bolts in
>> such short notice Then I remembered that at noisebridge there is a
>> mini-lathe. I used to know how to operate a lathe back in college, so
>> I could give it a shot myself... but then again, I need some steel, I
>> guess. 
>> 
>> Or maybe there is an easier solution, if there is a bunch of bolts
>> somewhere at noisebridge, I could dive to see if I can find something
>> useful... 
> 
> Harrison & Bonini should have those.  If not, McMaster definitely does
> (and delivers to SF business addresses via California Overnight for less
> than $10).
> 
> We have M3 and M6 at Noisebridge in the dirty shop, but I'm pretty sure
> we don't have M4.
> 
> Cutting your own M4 is a very ambitious first project on a new lathe.
> 
> Wait, did you say you need a M4 eyebolt?  That's a very unusual part
> AFAICS.  You'll probably have to cobble together something with an
> eye-nut, I'm afraid.  And I see today is your deadline. :(
> 
> -andy