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windswell
Joined: 20 May 2010 Posts: 211
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Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2013 12:57 pm Post subject: 3 small drill bits later .... VOILA |
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RE earlier posts: The vent screw is brass or bronze. And I don't have a dremel thingy.
A. I Started drilling with 1/16 bit at 45% into one leg of the dinged phillips head, got a small hole started, then slowly go to vertical with the drill, then slowly to horizontal to start clearing a "slot". SNAP !! goes the drill bit.
B. New bit, start again at A. above , but even slower, lots of progress, moving to opposite leg of dinged phillips head, SNAP !! goes the drill bit 2.
C. Back to B above with drill bit #3, ooops SNAP !! goes the drill bit. but can now get horizontal enough to sorta dremel-push the broken bit against what is begining to look "slottish".
D. Insert medium size slot head screw driver and out comes the vent plug.
E. 10 minutes with a hack saw blade turning the mess into a respectablish slot. So I'm good to go.... and off to a good hardware store for a new O ring.
F. Having spent a half hour up close and personal with the vent screw, and looking at another vent screw from an old Kinetic Jimmy Lewis board, I'm now aware that there's either a vertical filed-off section of threads OR a hollow bronze vent screw with a tiny vent hole near the O ring. What's up with that???? Maybe vent excess internal air pressure???? |
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U2U2U2
Joined: 06 Jul 2001 Posts: 5467 Location: Shipsterns Bluff, Tasmania. Colorado
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Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2013 2:08 pm Post subject: |
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thanks for the update, and very pleased that you have been successful.
I thought your opinion on brass /bronze was wrong, looked at my box of new and olde screws, by golly the oldest is probably brass, but the screw head is covered with I think is chrome , its flaking off( not been in use since Moby Dick were a minnow)
The new ones I think are made of aluminum, the red anodized ones I use, very light weight.
dont know anything about the vent hole in the screw. _________________ K4 fins
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superkraut
Joined: 18 Mar 2001 Posts: 346
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Posted: Fri Nov 29, 2013 4:03 pm Post subject: Re: 3 small drill bits later .... VOILA |
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windswell wrote: | Having spent a half hour up close and personal with the vent screw, and looking at another vent screw from an old Kinetic Jimmy Lewis board, I'm now aware that there's either a vertical filed-off section of threads OR a hollow bronze vent screw with a tiny vent hole near the O ring. What's up with that???? |
these devices are designed to reliably vent your board the instant pressure is off the O-ring |
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