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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;springfld.arsenal, post: 273115, member: 54&quot;]I posted a pic and question on a machinist forum, asking for ID of some small brass gages I got with some other stuff.&nbsp; This reply from a forum member in Wales cracked me up, spitting coffee etc.&nbsp; Wonderful,since on that forum, full of professional machinists, they take usually turns beating me up, name-calling etc because I&#039;m a relative newbie machinist.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;No idea what they are but they look like handy bits of brass, ready nuts</p><p>( one of the guys in work suggested &quot;longnut&quot; to go with the threaded bar aka long thread, he reckoned he would make a fortune (tea out of nose time) selling his cuttable metre long hexagonal nut, you just cuts it off a bit shorter than you wants, because the tape measures are Chinese inches and everybody knows thems short arsed inches (he had an inch and a half missing off the important end of his tape, wouldent change it because &quot;it fits in my hand&quot;</p><p>We tried to explain that tapping a metre long hole, or even drilling one would be a bit of a project but he wouldent hear of it, bloody defeatist lot, they would never have put a dog on Mars thinking like that!</p><p>A bit of a character to say the least.&quot;</p><p><img src="https://springfieldarsenal.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/img_5900.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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