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Member since Apr 2009 • Last active Dec 2024

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    These are not far off. Flange nut still ultimately more secure and foolproof though. Personally a nicely machined open face chamfered nut > dome nut but thats just me

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    Supernice

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    Co-opted August Cycles’ Salsa liplock lamp bracket mod.

    M3 bolt + brake pad hardware.

    Anyone know the shear strength of a stainless m3 bolt, the force put out by brake housing?

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    Its just a chamfered low profile nut. Think what I had was a specific machines parts or possibly marine specialty sort of thing (ie for not snagging sails / spinnaker). It was old stock from my old man’s work so could be either

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    Almost like deeper hex version of this

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    Bit like this, but deeper and more chamfer

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    True, and true.

    I guess its not ugly if bolt ends nicely chamfered, and the nuts are posh enough?

    Once upon a time had a stash of these beautiful low profile stainless m5 nuts that had their shoulders chamfered off, so were very low stack, and sort of domed. Really helpful as no idea what to even google for

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    Socket sleeve nut?

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    Also these fugly things:

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    The reason they didnt catch on is because they were a half idea poorly executed that actively engaged with being a gimmick rather than functionally useful.

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