How do I connect standoffs to shaft collars? I see people do this all the time for structural support but I’ve never figured out how to do it.
Thank you!
My team is actually thinking about doing this for a four bar. It is going to, if all goes as planned, be attached to a few axles and have some couplers with axle collars on them. On the end of this will be the intake. Love this idea.
Use couplers instead of the screw in the shaft collar
If you don’t have any couplers and don’t really want to buy them you can always just cut the heads off 1” or 0.5” screws.
Have you actually done this? We’ve cut screws before and the threads don’t like having nuts (or standoffs) put on them. You would probably have to take a die set and recut the threads, and even then it would be difficult to even screw them in.
We have done it for a ton of screws, and it works great for us. We use a dremel drill with a metal cutting tip. It makes it maybe a tiny bit harder to screw in, but it’s not really noticeable.
Ah. Never occurred to me to use a dremel. We used a bolt cutters.
Yeah a dremel is good, since it doesn’t damage the threads around the cut. Bolt cutters, would obviously damage the threads a lot.
We have a dremel, I just never thought of using one.
Dremel: a teams best friend
When you cut a screw, you should do it with nuts already on it. You can then unscrew the nut over the threads where it was cut, letting the uncut threads guide the nut. That nearly always fixes whatever problem you caused with the cutting.
From my experience a little bit of damage to the thread is ok and sometimes even helpful as it helps to keep the screw in place. Or you could just make a clean cut and use thread lock instead.