Army stove jet/control spindle nut tool

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  1. presscall

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    In my recent ‘About time …’ post I caught up with a long-overdue replacement for the pot rest, missing from the stove when I bought it.

    The empty clips in the lid for the tool in this post’s title were a prompt to make up for another absentee when the stove was purchased - missing the burner also, it was a good job the skeletal remains of a No.12 were cheap.

    Ingredients, an inexpensive NRV tool from an online source, a 10mm deep 1/4-inch drive socket and a short offcut of the 5mm diameter stainless steel rod I used for the pot rest.

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    I cut off the tommy-bar end of the NRV key and a couple of inches of the shaft off, then roughly machined a 1/4-inch square spigot on the cut end to locate the drive socket for silbrazing. Then I drilled a pilot hole through the shaft diametrically, following through with a 5mm driil to take the new tommy bar.

    Brazed up, flux boiled off and a polish, the clips in the lid no longer unoccupied.

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    John