{"id":5570,"date":"2022-06-24T17:19:01","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T16:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5570"},"modified":"2022-06-24T20:12:32","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T19:12:32","slug":"homemade-nut-spinner-handles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5570","title":{"rendered":"Homemade Nut Spinner Handles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While doing a recent loco repair for a fellow Guild Member, I found that I was constantly swapping the head of my Markits nut spinner between 8BA and 12BA with the result that quite a few times it was the head of the nut spinner that unscrewed not the nut as I hadn&#8217;t tightened it enough. I use the 8, 10 and 12BA heads most frequently and rarely use the 14BA and 16BA heads. Thinking about it, I don&#8217;t think that I have ever used the 6BA head so far although I do have some 6BA hardware so I probably will at some point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For&nbsp;those unfamiliar with what I am talking about this is the &#8216;Markits&#8217; version<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_0001-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"475\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_0001-3-1024x475.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5569\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_0001-3-1024x475.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_0001-3-300x139.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_0001-3-768x356.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_0001-3-500x232.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_0001-3.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Markits Nut Spinner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I decided to make some spare handles so that I could have the 8, 10 and 12BA heads on individual handles and then fit the 14BA and 16BA to a double ended handle and second double handle for the 6BA and any other size that I might come up with at some point. In the meantime I will make a rounded end insert just to finish it off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Homemade-Nut-Spinner-Handles.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"642\" src=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Homemade-Nut-Spinner-Handles-1024x642.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5568\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Homemade-Nut-Spinner-Handles-1024x642.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Homemade-Nut-Spinner-Handles-300x188.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Homemade-Nut-Spinner-Handles-768x481.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Homemade-Nut-Spinner-Handles-479x300.jpg 479w, http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Homemade-Nut-Spinner-Handles.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Homemade Nut Spinner Handles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I suspect that Markits use 10mm hex bar to make theirs. I did mine the longer way using 10mm round and then milling flats on them. Of course I had no sooner cut&nbsp;them all and drilled for the thread when I found a length of 10mm brass hex but isn&#8217;t that always the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If anyone wishes to do something similar with theirs, the thread on the Markits heads is M5 x 0.8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While doing a recent loco repair for a fellow Guild Member, I found that I was constantly swapping the head of my Markits nut spinner between 8BA and 12BA with the result that quite a few times it was the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5570\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-machine-tools"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5570"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5574,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5570\/revisions\/5574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.railway-models-and-art.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}