Not a chance. I've just tried a 5mm die over the shank of a 6mm drill bit.
That's going nowhere.

Cheers. This is what I thought.

I think I'm better off just using an M5 and then putting some shrink wrap over the first 5mm of threads. I just got all excited about being able to have an M6 bolt to fill up the 6mm hole

Maybe sleeve a long M5 with 6mm x 5mm brass tube? Bond the sleeve in place with Araldite or Chemical Metal if it needs to stay in place. I take it this is still for your bar-ends / mirror fittings.

That's what I was gonna suggest but couldn't find a M5 sleeve/collar with OD less than 7mm.

Yeah this is pretty much where I ended up.

Massive project drift with this having

TWICE

ordered exactly the same incorrect length bolt.

How #tartmode are you trying to get? Sometimes you just have to send a drawing of the exact thing you want to a machine shop and accept that two bolts are going to cost you £100

On a scale of 1-10, zero.

Although if I keep ordering the wrong length maybe that'd be a better bet 🤔

I have some M5 ID Ø / M5.45 OD Ø in brass
or some M5.7ID Ø / M6.3 OD Ø in ally.
PM me a postal addy if either of those are of any use to you.
I don't have much -how much do you need?

Can you make anything useful out of bronze?

Some people managed to throw together a few bits and bobs quite a while ago

They took ages.

Yes but in the last 50 years, do people still make things out of bronze other than heinous ornaments?

All kinds of useful things.

https://www.mcmaster.com/products/bronze/

The propellors of the QE2 were fashioned from a particular alloy of bronze. When the ship was refurbished the props were bought by a salvage company as this alloy lent itself very well to the manufacture of high-end golf clubs.
What are the stair cappings on the London Underground made of?
They look a bit bronze (ish).

Yes but in the last 50 years, do people still make things out of bronze other than heinous ornaments?

Aside from the many industrial uses, art bronzes are still cast to this day. It's up to you whether they're any good, but I always had a soft spot for Eduardo Paolozzi. And of course, the bells.

Lovely handrails and door furniture

Nickel bronze, gunmetal and aluminium.

Previously an 'age' or civilisation?

(trigger warning: discrimination)

I started work at a near but not-London council 4 weeks ago. My first day started with my manager spouting two hours of vitriol: liberally saying he doesn’t give a fuck if they fire him, saying he moved towns because of the Muslim population in Tooting Bec, condemning ‘soft liberal types’, bitching about an imminent Labour government, over sharing about how he cheated on his first wife, and other nonsense culminating in his opinion that humans are a pest on the planet, that 2 billion people are the optimal number and the rest should be culled. Yes, those were his actual words.

My second day was not better, and at one point he casually dropped how he’s given bad references before, but not formally of course, instead he’s found out the hiring manager’s phone and had a quiet word. On my 3rd day he mocked a situation where a child had drowned.

I’ve been forcing myself to endure because I have a new baby and partner on unpaid maternity, but the guy’s attitude and treatment has worn me down. He’s micromanaging me, told me to stop meeting with my predecessors who moved to other teams, and had the gall to tell me off for not copy-pasting and sending in my own name an ineffective passive-aggressive email he had written. I deduce he’s trying to isolate me, which is a messed up thing to see.

His manager is also a chnt, who is punctilious about not getting involved in the work.

I need out of this role asap but my notice is 3 months. It’s gotten so bad I’m having constant invasive thoughts of self harm. I contacted HR then didn’t book a meeting after 3 people separately advised that I’d just make myself a martyr or a target. What can I do?

Sympathies, that sounds horrendous. After 4 weeks your notice is 3 months? No probation period or anything like that? Are you a union member? Can you get transferred to another team asap? I'm sure you've thought of the obvious things already.

3 months notice straight off the bat seems unusual.

my notice is 3 months

Doesn’t mean a thing, nobody can make you turn up if it’s messing with your health

If you need out and you’ve only been there 4 weeks I think in your position I’d consider just not mentioning the role on your CV. A 4 week gap won’t be an issue, you could just say you started a role but it wasn’t as advertised and you left shortly after. Don’t put them as a reference and just put your prev employer down.

Join your recognised union if not already but take note of the "qualifying period". Stick it out for that duration whilst keeping meticulous levels of written evidence. Nothing done verbally, all via email now.

Follow the grievance process to the letter once union can support and be prepared to agitate with polite but firm insistence to make things progress where it is in all other parties interests to drag their heels & obstruct.

Speak to your g.p. about the invasive thoughts of self harm, and ask for the wellbeing policy from HR and follow that to the letter, get Occ Health Assessment underway too. Get familiar with ACAS and CAB guidance around all this and grievances. Note ACAS key timescale to meet is 3 months less 1 day from last action of discrimination.

Be stubborn, remind yourself you are right and fight it every day. Ignore those 3 people, they have nothing at stake, you do have.

Alternatively, look elsewhere for work, which I appreciate is easier said than done at times.

I agree with hoefla, a union will advise you and know what steps to take. It's easy for me to say but I would ask him to pause before every monologue or rant and tell him that I am going to record the conversation. He will ask why and I would say that I don't want to miss any of his pearls of wisdom. This approach might not work for you but I'd enjoy every minute as I despise cunts like this. Perhaps a watered down but effective version is to keep a diary of every piece of evidence to present during any subsequent HR/union meeting. Good luck

Thank you all for your answers. I have a meeting tomorrow with an advisor. Hopefully there’s a simple way out. I can’t work with this idiot and I have severe doubts about the leaders and the wider team in the open plan office.