Screw damage
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trash |
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I'd send it to a screw sharpening service that puts a completely new geometry on the screw. That's a lot of work for a file. |
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Not trash. Just needs to be sharpened. You have to remove enough material until you get back into virgin metal. If you have a keen eye, good vise and sharp file this isn't hard nor overly time consuming. However, a screw sharpening service (anicescrew.com is east coast) will also bring it back. |
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Trash, you bent two of the teeth inward, so fixing means grinding down into new teeth. |
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Send an email to the following. They may be able to help. |
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Along with others, I highly recommend Jason at anicescrew.com, he is an excellent craftsmen and jeweler and has done terrific work on many people's screws in the Northeast. He could cut it back and reshape entirely new points, and the screw would be as good as new. Do it. |
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Definitely not trash. I use the following technique to sharpen my own and it yields great results. A wood block, C-clamps, and a set of jewelry files is all I use. They bite like new when I'm done - even ones in the same condition as yours. Here's a link on the technique: |
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Ahh...merely a flesh wound. |
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Dobson wrote:I'd send it to a screw sharpening service that puts a completely new geometry on the screw. That's a lot of work for a file. What did you do, send it through the garbage disposal?Na, my partner bottomed it out. When he took it out there was turf inside and we didn't notice the bent teeth till getting back. I imagine it was a combination of frozen turf and rocks that did it. |
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I'm happy to recycle your screw. I'll pay shipping + $10 for it. PM if interested. |
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Crack open a beer and grab a file. Or leave it like that and throw it on the rack the next time your partner leads! |
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Totally fixable screw. |
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start with the needle-nose. |
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EugeneK wrote:Is this screw trash or is there hope of fixing it? It's a 22cm omega pacific.It will take some patients but with a 22cm there is a lot of screw left to work with |
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Jeff J wrote: It will take some patients but with a 22cm there is a lot of screw left to work withActually all the screws from 13cm to 22cm have the same number of threads. That's not to say that you can't fix it. You'll just shorten it by 0.7cm |