Everybody who has worked on a car knows the pain and suffering of stripping or damaging threads. It can and will happen to anybody on a wrenching journey, and it often feels like a firm dead-end for ...

If you’ve never had the displeasure of a cross threaded engine casing mounting hole, or frame mounting point for, say, bodywork, we can assure you that this forehead-scrunching, sweary explosion ...

While a handyman can buy nuts and bolts of virtually any size almost anywhere at little cost, there are times when he or she must renew stripped threads, cut threads to fit existing nuts, bolts or ...

Fasteners--nuts and bolts. You can never find the size and grade you need at the auto store, and you can't fire stripped ones out of a blunderbuss into your neighbor's golden plastic yard orb. You can ...

Derek Tostevin brought this 'tap and die' set to the BBC Guernsey Outside Broadcast at the Guernsey Museum. It was used for cutting a thread into a piece of wood. Specifically, it was used to allow ...