Thread: Solid Domed Washers - again

Here is my variant on making solid dome washers. I use a 2-56 bolt and nut. The inside diameter of a 2-56 nut is just about right for a 1/16 rod. I use a portion of the tube out of a Bic ballpoint pen as a spacer to keep the nut away form the chuck. Basically I chuck the bolt in the drill and file and sand the nut to shape. Make sure you go in the tightening direction when you are filing and sanding.

Charlie

nice.

I just bought the stuff for making a jig for the brass domed washers. I'll have to try this too.

I love that one, simple, sweet, and to the point.... Thanks for posting it

An excellent idea - the simplest ones are often the best!

Regards,
Neil

Sweet setup...simple, straight forward...I always did appreciate the KISS method of things.

Is it hard to find brass nuts to fit the 2-56 thread or it is plain steel?

Mark

You can also stack the four nuts on the bolt and bypass using the pen tube spacer. That way you can make sure they are all the same diameter. Then keep putting a different one in the end position to do the rounding. Both ways work. I wanted to post the least convoluted method first to get the method across.

Charlie