You would imagine that, armed with a set of callipers, a calculator and the ability to count, it should be pretty easy to work out the size and thread pitch of a given fastener, determining along the way whether it is a metric or imperial size. As someone trying to source a suitable threaded insert as part of a furniture repair, this has proven not to be the case, particularly given that I only have 10mm of bolt to work with – the callipers might be accurate to a tenth of a millimetre, but I am not, and the difference that even a fraction either way makes to the calculations seems to throw up a huge range of possibilities as to what the thread might be. And it's put me in mind once again of the thought that, while design for manufacture is without doubt a prime consideration, so increasingly is design for easy repair.
From design for manufacture to design for easy repair
You would imagine that, armed with a set of callipers, a calculator and the ability to count, it should be pretty easy to work out the size and thread pitch of a given fastener, determining along the way whether it is a metric or imperial size. As someone trying to source a suitable threaded insert as part of a furniture repair, this has proven not to be the case, particularly given that I only have 10mm of bolt to work with – the callipers might be accurate to a tenth of a millimetre, but I am not, and the difference that even a fraction either way makes to the calculations seems to throw up a huge range of possibilities as to what the thread might be. And it's put me in mind once again of the thought that, while design for manufacture is without doubt a prime consideration, so increasingly is design for easy repair.
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