I guess I was a bit snippy with Rocket J , or Ramblin' Jack Elliot.

(BTW, there is a creek here, on the way to Port Renfrew, call Jack
Elliot creek. I'll take a pic of the sing next time i drive that way.)

I bet Rocket does not have drill press and good vise to make the job
as easy as I made it out to be. It might be even worth his time to
take it to a machinist to drill

alistair

On 24-May-11, at 6:24 PM, Daniel Rotblatt wrote:

> I'm with alisair.  Put a nut on the bolt, cut the bolt off, file/grind
> one side flat then drill a hole, back off the nut to straighten up the
> threads.
>
> Dan
> Los Angeles, CA
> '85 Westy Weekender
>
> On May 24, 2011, at 5:49 PM, Alistair Bell wrote:
>
>> Ramblin' Jack...
>>
>> do I get it right, a bolt with a hole drilled radially at one end?
>>
>> Jeez, what will they think of next?
>>
>> :)
>>
>> cut the bolt and drill a new hole...
>>
>> alistair
>>
>>
>> On 24-May-11, at 5:09 PM, Rocket J Squirrel wrote:
>>
>>> I'm holding in my hand a bolt (holds bolt up to monitor so everyone
>>> can
>>> see). It is a 5/16-18 carriage head bolt about 1-1/2 inches long. So
>>> far, so normal. But at the tip end (not the head end) there is a
>>> 3/16''
>>> hole drilled crossways, perpendicular to the axis of the bolt. This,
>>> for
>>> inserting a padlock.
>>>
>>> I need a shorter version of this bolt. I can't cut off the drilled
>>> end
>>> because the shorter version also needs a cross-drilled end