I have no doubt that I am either being impenetrably stupid, or just confused , but is there any off the shelf, IE MSC, brass rods smaller than .250 inch that can be directly threaded to a standard size? This is for reinforcing some cheap wooden chairs that are pulling apart, and they have been glued, screwed and futzed with enough. I want to cut some brass rod, thread the ends with a die, (I have no lathe), and put acorn nuts on the ends to hold things together. The nuts come in
10-24, 8-32, 6-32, the rods 7/32, 3/16, 5/32, 1/8. I know .250X20 will work, but that is a big hole to put in the chair legs, and may do more harm than good. A cursory browse through some charts seem to indicate that quarter twenty is the only size that lines up. Is this really the case? Thanks, Jon- posted
19 years ago