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Anyone have any or know where I can buy them, all I can find is packs of 10.
Managed to grind the back of mine down and it no longer locks properly
I am guessing these will be expensive in singles. £13.20 each in packs of 10.
Do you not have lathe.
My guess is ABS 3D printed nut will be strong enough. But some of the guys in here work with all sorts of 3D filament so they might know better.
Embed nuts in the 3D print
Markforged Mechanical Features Most 3D printing plastics are not strong enough to print threads. Their yield strength is significantly lower than that of metals. Even fibre reinforcements do not protect against high wear. Precision and high bonding strength can only be guaranteed by metal...
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Does the required nut screw directly onto the spindle of a machine? If so, what machine?
Describing the requirement as "3M retainer nuts" is too vague for us to understand what you are looking for.
The pack-of-ten 3M ones are all imperial thread, meaning the Wolfcraft one above, which would be M14 thread, for a standard grinder, might not fit.
Describing the requirement as "3M retainer nuts" is too vague for us to understand what you are looking for.
The pack-of-ten 3M ones are all imperial thread, meaning the Wolfcraft one above, which would be M14 thread, for a standard grinder, might not fit.
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Those three words are the names of manufacturers, not the description of the tool the disk is attached to.
You know what you want because you have it in front of you, looking at it. We can only guess at what you want. And if we guess, we may guess wrong and mislead you in your purchase. We do not want to do that, so please help us to help you by giving full information.
This is a pure guess, but it looks like those disks go onto a standard 5" angle grinder. Hence, the Wolfcraft item above would fit.
It is difficult to find the nuts for sale without the rubber pad. This is about the cheapest I could find - keep the nut and throw the pad away:
Rubber Backing Pad
Ideal for fibre discs. Fits all angle grinders with M14 x 2 locking nut. 115mm - 13,200rpm maximum. 178mm - 8,500rpm maximum.
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Upgrade Your Grinding Experience With This Reliable 125mm Backing Pad For M14 For Angled Tools Featuring A Lock Nut - AliExpress 1420
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It does say it's 14mm but not sure what pitch it is.
The specs I have seen for the wolfcraft model seem to say 14 x 2 but also 5/8.- 11
However they don't correlate in size....
I give up. Lol
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UK and European grinders use M14 x 2 (M14 standard ISO coarse) threads. US models, just because, use 5/8"-11 threads. 3M sell into both markets so provide both options.
That is why I was asking initially about the machine for which the nut is required. If it happened to be a 3M-branded complete machine (similar to a Mirka Deros), it might be US-spec. Now, having seen the pads, the 3M only relates to the rubber disk, not the machine which spins that disk so the metric option is more probable.
