Using the SVM-45 on the honing wheel

[Elden]

Probably most people do not use the knife jig when using the honing wheel. When doing certain knives, I quickly found that the large locking knob would contact the leg of the USB due to the horizontal positioning of the USB.
A trip to the hardware store to purchase a metric bolt of proper length and diameter, helped solve the problem. Most of the time, I use the regular stock part. Hmmm, I wonder where I left that metric bolt?! 

[Herman Trivilino]

Although not recommended, you could pull the plastic knob.  The end of the threaded metal shaft has a spline that fits inside the plastic knob.

[Ken S]

Herman,

I think a standard 6mm bolt would do the trick for you.  That's what I used in my jig.  (See post of earlier today.)

Ken

ps (Only a Yankee barbarian would do this.......I think the tapped hole could be redrilled and tapped for 1/4 20 thread.)

[Elden]

Hey! Rob, Robin, and the rest of them over there think we all are Yankee barbarians any way!

[Ken S]

and proud of it!

[Herman Trivilino]

I think a standard 6mm bolt would do the trick for you.  That's what I used in my jig.  (See post of earlier today.)

Yup, labelled "M6" in the fastener aisle of my local hardware store.

ps (Only a Yankee barbarian would do this.......I think the tapped hole could be redrilled and tapped for 1/4 20 thread.)

Yes, Ken, that would be barbaric.  But it would work!   

[Herman Trivilino]

Hey! Rob, Robin, and the rest of them over there think we all are Yankee barbarians any way!

And to think, our ancestors stole the inch from theirs!

[Rob]

I've got one thing to say to you yanks.......who discovered the damn country?

[Elden]

One further, Who created it?

[Ken S]

According to the scholars at the local Irish pub, it was St. Patrick who discovered our country.

And, we didn't steel the inch.  We won it fair and square in a poker game with the First Earl of Grantham.

Ken

[Jeff Farris]

I've got one thing to say to you yanks.......who discovered the damn country?

An Italian.

[Rob]

I've got one thing to say to you yanks.......who discovered the damn country?

An Italian.

Smartass! :-)

Strictly speaking it was the paleo-Indians some 15000 years ago (though that doesn't really help my case)   

[Herman Trivilino]

No, it doesn't.  And they weren't Indians.  That was another mistake.  Over here in the land of political correctness we refer to them as Native Americans.

[Rob]

Yes....now you do.....but wickipedia refers to them by their paleontological name...paleo-indians

[Rob]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleo-IndiansShare

Paleo-Indians (Paleoindians) or Paleoamericans is a classification term given to the first peoples who entered, and subsequently inhabited, the American .......

The defence rests Your honour!