Posted by Teakettle on June 22, 2016 at 14:35:46 from (74.104.135.8):
Decide to cross off one of the jobs on the when-you-have-a-few-minutes-honey list, and trim some of the out-of-control rhododendrons making it hard to see out of the living room windows. So I hitch up a wagon to one of the lawn tractors, trim the branches and toss them into the wagon to haul away. Then I notice that one of the front tractor wheels is entirely flat. Bring out an air pump and an extension cord, but the tube must have totally come apart, I can't get it to stay inflated for even a minute.
Okay, drive to Tractor Supply (20 miles each way) and get an inner tube. Take off wheel and walk it over to the shop. Notice that the foot-long piece of all-thread that serves as a central shaft in the mini tire changer bolted to the bench is bent enough (which bozo did THAT?) to make it not practical to use the thing. Looks like 9/16 but when I grab a piece of 9/16 all-thread from the rack it's just a little too small. Aha, must be 5/8, but I don't seem to have any 5/8 around so I drive to the hardware store (only 10 miles each way this time) and pick up a piece of 5/8 all-thread.
Nope, that's too big. Do they make 19/32 all-thread? I don't think so, so I check the old rod in my metric bolt gauge but it doesn't seem to match anything there either. Must be some kinkball size they know about only in Shenzhen. Or is there Whitworth all-thread, maybe?
Rather than looking to see whether McMaster stocks something that would fit, why not just drill and tap the threaded parts on the tire changer to take the 5/8 rod I have in my hand? Then if the rod ever gets bent again replacement will be simple. So I take it apart and put a 17/32 bit (the size for 5/8-11) in the drill press and have at it. And of course when I'm done the tap is too tight and clearly not going to work. Wotttheheck, I grab the next size of Silver&Deming bit (9/16) and re-drill. Nope, still too tight. What happened to my 19/32 bit?
Next day, borrow a 19/32 bit (and a 37/64, while I'm at it, just in case) from work, and in the evening redrill, tap, put the tire changer together, replace the tube, and all is right with the world. And order some more Silver&Deming bits.
This is why the when-you-have-a-few-minutes-honey list never seems to get shorter.
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