No Thumbscrew?

[Nightwing]

Hey, do you guys know of any way to secure the blade other than a thumbscrew? It seems to me that it's slightly bulky and gets in the way of certain designs.

[Ambo]

U can use a set screw....just have to keep the allen wrench handy.

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[Nightwing]

Sorry, I meant a thumbscrew... I'll edit that...

Yeah, an allen wrench sounds fine. So... how would I go about drilling that as opposed to the regular thumbscrew?

[Ambo]

well, i picked up 8-32 set screws and hence i just used the same stuff i use to put in the thumb screw.

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[Jedi-Loreen]

<font size="3"><font color="teal">Yeah, just make sure you use the proper drill and tap set for whatever set screw size/thread you choose.</font id="teal"></font id="size3">



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[suit_man]

drilling and tapping for a ser screw is exactly the same as for a thumb screw, if you have a 10-32 thumbscrew, a 10-32 set screw has the same threads.

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[Firebird21]

Countersink it if you want it to be flush to the hilt.

Just take a drill bit that’s slightly bigger than the head of the screw and drill out the hole the same depth as the screw head.


If that doesn’t make sense tell me, I’ll try to elaborate.


There are countersink drill bits that make it much easier to do because you drill the hole and the countersink at the same time.



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[Jedi-Loreen]

<font size="3"><font color="blue">Why would you need to counter sink a set screw? It has no head, just screw it down flush with the emitter.

http://www.mcmaster.com/param/images/set/socket_flat_120x80.gif

He's talking about using them to hold the blade, not in the hilt itself.</font id="blue"></font id="size3">



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[Firebird21]

Ahh, yes that would work well...

I was thinking a screw like the one at the emitter end of the MR Anakin.

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[Jedi-Loreen]

<font size="3"><font color="teal">I was wondering if maybe you were thinking of a socket head cap screw.</font id="teal"></font id="size3"> [;)]

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[Firebird21]

Something like this...

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<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Jedi-Loreen

<font size="3"><font color="teal">I was wondering if maybe you were thinking of a </font id="teal"><font color="red">socket head cap screw</font id="red"><font color="teal">.</font id="teal"></font id="size3"> [;)]<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">

Allan-head is so much easier to say...[:p]
Edit: Well then again, the set screw is also an Allan-head, so I suppose that would prevent confusion.



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[Jedi-Loreen]

<font size="3"><font color="teal">I decided to use the same terminology as Tim is using for them in his store.</font id="teal"></font id="size3">

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[Do-Clo]

One think that you will learn in life no matter what you call it, after all it is still a screw and the fact is you either have a screw or you need one.

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[Jedi-Loreen]

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[LAN-ED-TUL]

and dont forget to tighten it down, nuttin worse than havin a screw loose! lol

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[Nightwing]

Ah, that top one is what I'm after.

[SaberSentinel]

I was thinking of using a piece of spring steel attached to a peg that would go through the hilt and into the blade. Kind of like a vacuum cleaner hose. Do you guys think it would hold the blade securely enough?

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