On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Tony Duell wrote:
> I can't remember,but the reason I am replying here is that I have an
> intense distrust of glues. If it were my machine, I would drill small
My dislike of glues is 2-fold. Firstly they tend to come apart when you
don't want them to, and secondly they are difficult to undo (without
damage) if you do need to get the thign apart again.
holes and use
nuts and bolts (M3 over here, I guess 4-40 is about right
too) to hold the grilles in place. It may not be originial, but I am not
running a museum, I run the machines :-). And I don't want metal objects
floating around inside...
. . . such as M3 nuts?
Who said anything about metal nuts? There are nylon (or even ceramic)
ones avaialble.
In any case, there are ways of preventing them working loose. Shakeproof
washers, self-locking ('Nyloc') nuts, threadlock adhesives [1] (Loctite make
some nice ones..), lock-nutting (tightening 2 nuts against each other),
and that's just the ones I can think of off the top of my head.
[1] If you pick the right type, it will hold, and you can undo it without
damage later, so my main objections to glues don't apply.
-tony