Anyone else come up with a better solution to soft hex head nuts?
Heres the senario:
Its necessary to bolt drive gear/enclosures to stuff etc… obviously.
It is necessary to use thread lock because of vibrations
It is necesary to take all these bolts out… more often than I anticipated.
(Changing wheel size, pully size, troubleshooting, upgrading…)
Every single time I do absolutely anything to do with small hex bolts, I end up in a mess.
Drilling out rounded bolts, re-tapping threads, buying different bolts, rounding the new bolts.
I can’t seem to find a hex/allen tool that fits so tightly that it doesnt strip the heads.
Ive tried using less tread lock. Ive tried an impact driver. Ive tried hand tools.
I HATE SMALL SOFT HEX BOLTS.
I would have swopped to standard bolts ages ago but almost all the drive gear needs the bolts to be flush with a face, hense the need for an internal fitting tool.
Anyone found titanium hex bolts anywhere… or diamond?.. I jest.
In fact @pylotope, Im realising that Im using all hex bolts. I’ve been using torx bits on the hex bolts because I couldnt find a hex bit to fit. Im gonna change all to torx!
I just cant believe Ive never bought actual torx head bolts!!! What the hell!?
Ive always just bought hex head and used torx bit because without thread lock, thats never really been an issue! Ive worked on a million projects and fixed car parts etc, all with torx head bolts and I have NEVER thought to buy them because every time I look, I see hex first. So crazy how your mind can work. Ive ordered a bunch of actual torx ones now. Still can’t believe I didnt think to look for them before.
Also with blue thread locker it doesn’t require that much to maintain tightness. Probably exceeding the torque while tightening the bolts and making them hard to remove.