I bought a set with M6 X 1, M8 X 1.25, M10 X 1.5 and M12 X 1.75 off eBay for $32.00 with shipping. The M10s made fabbing up my 6-speed mounts a breeze. Wish I'd found them a long time ago.

Yes, I know you can make your own. For this price, life's too short.

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Maybe I've simply forgotten ... but I had to look up what "transfer screws" are. I (re)learned something today!

quote From Here Transferring hole locations is one of those finicky operations that a budding machinist has to learn. Most of us start out clumsily measuring things with digital calipers and then wondering why they're off by quite a lot. It's hard to measure holes precisely! Pretty soon we discover transfer punches, which are really cool. Eventually, we have a blind hole and can't use a transfer punch. The answer there is a transfer screw. It has threads on one end and a point on the other. Screw it into the blind hole and voila: you can transfer! I was so pleased when I discovered these that I promptly ordered all the small imperial sizes I like to use. These things are not cheap, but I find I use them pretty often.

I use them all the time and have a collection that have been made over the years. As well as tapered nuts and bolt heads to center washers around holes for nice rounded corners on the brackets.

Nice collection! I can't tell you how many brackets I've made and re-made trying to get things lined up. I've made a few tools like those over the years, but due to manufacturing tolerances they always wiggled in the holes. These seem to be a bit over-sized; they fit precisely in the threads.

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The longer the threads, the better they fit.

Also, it helps to have a good set of drill bits in 1/64" increments so you can drill tight holes. Like for a 10mm bolt, I use a 13/32 bit (.406" vs 10mm = .394")
Then the process is use the transfer punch to mark a single hole, drill it with the tightest bit you have. Then move the transfer punch to the next hole, install a bolt in the 1st hole (use countersunk head if hole isn't tight) and mark the 2nd. Drill, move the transfer punch, install 2 bolts... and repeat until all holes are drilled and fit tightly. Once the holes are located, then refine/trim the outer shape.

Another trick (or if you screw up the first one) is to drill the hole oversize in a 16ga template (or the original bracket), use tight fitting washers (or countersunk/tapered bolts) around the mounting bolts, tack weld them to the template... now you have the precise hole location. Then take the template and space/clamp it about 1/4" above the final bracket material and drill through it into the final material with a drill press. I make everything in 16ga templates to start (easy to mark, drill, and cut) then once I am happy with the fit/shape, transfer everything to 1/8" or 3/16" material for the bracket.

I could have done with theese.

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