The following post is definitely the most pictures for the least amount of time spent on a job I have posted so far
I am still doing repairs to the passenger door, one of the little jobs that needed doing was to replace the captive nuts that hold the inner door panel in place. A common fault on our trucks, some of the screws had rusted in place and had to be drilled out to remove the panel.
Now your probably thinking 1/4" x 20 unc captive nuts.... no big deal, well in Europe they are a lot less easily available than you may think, we're all metric over here .....(I blame the French it's all their fault
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This whole job took 20 minutes start to finish and was done with stuff I had lying around so cost $0.00.
I started with a piece of 1" x 1/4" flat stock marked at 3/8" and centre punched,
Drilled out to 0.2"
I then ground a step on each side (using a 24 grit disc) leaving a 3/8 raised section down the centre
and then cut it into 3/8 "strips"
