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Originally Posted by topgun
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Originally Posted by Ninja_Bait
You can also just take a drill index and stick bolts in it until you find the right hole size.
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I wouldn't consider that useful advice. |
Why not? If you find a bolt that you want to use, for whatever reason, and you don't know what size it is (let's say you dug it out of a bin of unsorted machine screws of various practically indistinguishable sizes), testing it in the holes in a drill index or a drill gauge could easily tell you what hole size you need.
Of course, a chart or a rule of thumb like FrankJ's is always better, especially when you know exactly what you're doing, and I did not intend to present this as replacement for the precise way. But for a quick and unimportant fix, I see nothing wrong with the above method.