KaiserM109
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Advice: Be very careful when you take the nut off to clean up the threads on the lunette first.
I needed to borrow a lunette from one trailer to move my hulk that came without one. At 8:45 PM, 15 minutes before the storage yard locks down, I did notice that it got a little harder to turn when I got to the end of the threads, but I persisted. The result is that a ding in the threads on the lunette scored the threads in the nut badly enough that I want to replace it.
No problem! It’s just a nut, right? It turns out to be 1 1/8” by 16 TPI. I have scoured Denver proper for a replacement. My favorite source where I have been able to get all kinds of nuts and bolts tells me that it is a “manufacturer’s item” and that they can’t even order one.
A little help is that it is the same thread size as a large lug nut on 16 wheelers.
I needed to borrow a lunette from one trailer to move my hulk that came without one. At 8:45 PM, 15 minutes before the storage yard locks down, I did notice that it got a little harder to turn when I got to the end of the threads, but I persisted. The result is that a ding in the threads on the lunette scored the threads in the nut badly enough that I want to replace it.
No problem! It’s just a nut, right? It turns out to be 1 1/8” by 16 TPI. I have scoured Denver proper for a replacement. My favorite source where I have been able to get all kinds of nuts and bolts tells me that it is a “manufacturer’s item” and that they can’t even order one.
A little help is that it is the same thread size as a large lug nut on 16 wheelers.