[14194] in APO News
Re: Free tomorrow? Please run to the hardware store for Big Screw
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joshua Oreman)
Tue Apr 12 03:35:18 2011
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimo42Zq_3bSsxOEJAdfe_3U=GH42A@mail.gmail.com>
From: Joshua Oreman <oremanj@MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 03:34:54 -0400
To: apo-news@mit.edu
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 2:56 AM, Joshua Oreman <oremanj@mit.edu> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Big Screw needs your help. The screw trophy has been repaired by
> removing the old broken-off connecting screw, but we are without a new
> piece of threaded rod to insert into it and put everything back
> together. I have to be in lab all day tomorrow.
>
> If you have an hour free tomorrow, could you please take one of the
> old connecting pieces (it's conveniently sitting right next to the
> screw trophy!) to a hardware store and ask for a duplicate of it?
> Please let me know if you can do this, so I won't worry.
>
> Thank you so much!
Update: Instead of leaving the connector out where it could easily
roll off the cabinet and never be seen again, I've measured it. It's
1.25" long, 0.25" major diameter, and 20 threads per inch. In
screw-speak this is a "1/4-20" thread, which is a standard size of
coarse screw.
If a threaded rod can't be found, we can get a long screw and cut off the head.
Josh
>
> Josh
>
