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
18 years ago