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...wha?... Well, if by "pretty much all," you mean "roughly half," sure, I'll go with that. But sorry, no, there are as many bearings made for SAE shafts as for metric versions. SAE still...

Apparently I've got too much time on my hands, still futzing with this, but in my case, the setscrew is metric, 3mm x 0.5 thread, verified by my diggin out a metric tap/die set and finding that I was...

(Eleven years later, Dave stumbles in to report the same bafflement...) Mine's a 'Magna Industrial Tool' item (three of them, all so prone to loosening Allen setscrews that the first one disappeared...

Thanks Mark, good stuff. I've gotten a bit discouraged because it seems the available PVC stock here all has hollowed-out backs or is similarly structurally compromised. I wouldn't be concerned...

So Gorilla makes a PVC cement? Who knew? (OK, *I* didn't...) Thanks for that.

Have you ever done any "destructive testing" of joints made with this or other solvent-cements? If so, how would...

Thanks, Tom - I'm gonna guess that was some form of PVC solvent-cement...but I can't view pix unless I'm a paying member (?)

Well, I didn't mean to make you liable somehow for any negative outcome. I just wanted to know whether assemblies of PVC like this can be counted on to, say, break somewhere other than at the...

Hi Mark/others,

Mark, from your post & shop experience with PVC "boards," it seems like you'd be well-qualified to answer my question below.

I've been casting about for weatherproof materials...