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Son of Know Your Bolts

Son of Know Your Bolts

In the comments on yesterday’s piece about Bolt Depot’s poster of fasteners, a reader, JamesB, wrote: I would encourage budding young fabricators to also take a look at the bolt grade charts and get an inexpensive universal thread gauge. For found fasteners, the grade markings help differentiate metric from SAE, and the thread gauge helps […]

And the Winners Are….

We had two giveaways close last night. In the Make: Arduino Getting Started with Arduino Kit giveaway, the winner is: Fractal LLC Thanks to all who participated (we had over 600 entries) and thanks to Maker Shed for providing this great kit. In the Mechanics Skill Set giveaway of Dustyn Roberts’ Making Things Move, the […]