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How to Easily Reverse Engineer Threads

Here’s a great piece of physical problem-solving: Let’s say you’ve got the absolutely perfect threaded female part, but the corresponding male part leaves a little something to be desired. You’d like to create your own male part, but it’s impossible to measure the interior threading on the female part and you can’t track the manufacturing info down.

Here industrial designer Eric Strebel shows you how he reverse-engineers the threads using commonly available materials: