Long Toilet Bolts

Maybe stainless allthread with an acorn nut on top and a common on the bottom?

How about stainless allthread?

David

has brass and stainless all thread in 1/4-20, nuts, etc. Just not long toilet bolts :-). Depending on where you are they usually deliver in one day ups ground.

I have the need for some 4-1/2" long brass toilet bolts to hold a toilet down on a custom plywood pedestal. This is a custom home, probably built by a jack-of-all-trades, guaranteed master of none.

The pedestal under the loo on the upper floor is 2-1/2" thick and the one beneath the bottom floor loo is 3/4". He probably glued the flanges in at a level other than the floor.

Anyway, the flooring guys can't do their job until I come up with bolts for the owner. Most standard bolts are 2.5" and I found some long ones which are 4". I need a longer bolt. Homey's Despot didn't have any brass couplers or brass allthread.

Any ideas where I can find these dinosaur teeth?

Here's the style:

(Man, what a ripoff price these guys want. They're $2.37 at Grover.)

Take a chunk of brass all thread (or stainless) Pair of heavy washers to fit the rod, braze washers to rod, smooth brazing, grind flats onto washers. If using stainless weld the washers on.

How about standard bolts, some couplings, and the extra rod?

Me gotsk no torch. How does brass TIG?

I'm trying to find sleek round brass jobs to reduce the possibility of having to ream out the holes in the pedestal, too. The current problem is that they were made out of plated steel and rusted out.

Use a short section of 3/8 refrigeration tube as a coupling and solder the extensions to the flanged bolts....

I've seen those made of brass. They can be soldered. Use the 2" bolts, couplings and enough rod to do the job. that way the couplings won't interfere on either end.

Hmmm, maybe. If I could find some lug-nut style nuts with a coupler type of threaded extension attached, those would work ideally with the

4" bolts I bought yesterday. Y'know, the female part of a screw-together rivet?

Recently I found solid brass rod up to 1/4" in a hobby store.

Again, that doesn't address my problem. I can find rod, but I'm looking for either thin couplers in non-corrosive metal, or longer toilet bolts with the flats on the end. Toilet flanges won't accept nuts or standard bolt heads.