Banjo Bolt

Went to fire up the pressure washer today and about 5 minutes in, it took a dump. So while going through the preliminary inspection, the banjo bolt on the inlet snapped while removing it. @#$%##&(
So I went online and found the bolt at 3 different supply houses, the best price was 46.50 for a stupid banjo bolt. About that time Dale ask me if I'd found the bolt online. When I told him I had but for 46 bucks plus freight he replied "I'll just make one" So I figured what the heck, while he's doing that I can disassemble and clean the head assembly off the pressure washer, because from the looks of that banjo bolt there's clearly a chunk of something clogging a valve or something. Also I thought it'd be fun to document the "build" of a banjo bolt because this kind of thing fascinates me. Of course I'm easily entertained.


Start with a scrap of stainless

Setting the thread cutter in the tool holder

Cut da treads


Drill the hole

Finished in the lathe

Move to the mill and the indexing fixture to cut the hex


Drill the hole in the side.

Voila

That one will be there for a long time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It helps to be a very competent machinist i would think. [S

good Stuff !

That is fun to do those type of things.

Where have you been hiding ORR? Or have i just missed some posts?

earthman said:

Where have you been hiding ORR? Or have i just missed some posts?

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I don't get on the forum much since moving back to Steamboat a little over a year and a half ago because of slow internet at the house. i.e. Dale built the banjo bolt in about 30 minutes. Felt like it took me about 45 to build the post about it.........not too impressed with Hughes Net.
But now I got a laptop so I can surf on the couch while vegging in front of the tube in the evenings and time's not an issue. Looking forward to posting more often in the future.

offroadrolls said:

I don't get on the forum much since moving back to Steamboat a little over a year and a half ago because of slow internet at the house. i.e. Dale built the banjo bolt in about 30 minutes. Felt like it took me about 45 to build the post about it.........not too impressed with Hughes Net.

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You won't ever be impressed by Hughes Net. Were we live they are our only option for internet. Can't even have old style dial up as the phone lines won't support it out here.
Cloudy day. No internet. Rainy day. No internet. Sunny day. Real slow internet.....
Good luck.
p.s. Nice job on the bolt.
Torchie.