01-05-2021, 10:46 AM
Hi,
I've owned this for a number of years and this weekend it seems I stripped the hole where Fence Locking Assembly screws into. (see the picture) Not the screw itself, but the hole it screws into.
I checked ereplacements.com and the column itself is discontinued. I have a tap and die set, but I don't want to bore the hole any larger otherwise the Fence Locking assembly screw will be loose. (This weekend I ended up putting a C-clamp on the bar to hold the fence in place but as you can probably guess, this only prevented it from coming out too far). I could push it in however, mis-aligning my mortises. I guess I could put a clamp on the inside of the bar, but doing this for multiple mortise locations could get old pretty quickly.
So a couple of questions:
1) How can I rethread the whole to the same size?
2) Anyone got a site for Delta HCM replacement parts?
3) Anyone have an unused Delta HCM they want to part out?
4) How would you fix my issue? Thanks!
I've owned this for a number of years and this weekend it seems I stripped the hole where Fence Locking Assembly screws into. (see the picture) Not the screw itself, but the hole it screws into.
I checked ereplacements.com and the column itself is discontinued. I have a tap and die set, but I don't want to bore the hole any larger otherwise the Fence Locking assembly screw will be loose. (This weekend I ended up putting a C-clamp on the bar to hold the fence in place but as you can probably guess, this only prevented it from coming out too far). I could push it in however, mis-aligning my mortises. I guess I could put a clamp on the inside of the bar, but doing this for multiple mortise locations could get old pretty quickly.
So a couple of questions:
1) How can I rethread the whole to the same size?
2) Anyone got a site for Delta HCM replacement parts?
3) Anyone have an unused Delta HCM they want to part out?
4) How would you fix my issue? Thanks!
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