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From: "Joni Halabi" <jhalabi@fastmail.net> To: "Leonard H Tower Jr." <tower@alum.mit.edu>, apo-news@mit.edu Cc: "Joshua Oreman" <oremanj@mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1104121354250.9758@buzzword-bingo.mit.edu> Reply-To: jhalabi@fastmail.net Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:06:00 -0400 Is this all for the piece that I'm getting from the engravers? Do you need me to drop it off earlier (i.e. if you need to put everything together before the ceremony tonight)? _________________________________________________ Joni Halabi jhalabi@fastmail.net ----- Original message ----- From: "Leonard H Tower Jr." <tower@alum.mit.edu> To: apo-news@mit.edu Cc: "Joshua Oreman" <oremanj@mit.edu> Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:02:54 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: Free tomorrow? Please run to the hardware store for Big Screw * get a "1/4-20" nut as well. if you cut threads, they need to be repaired the tool of choice is a "1/4-20" die, but a nut does in a pinch a small metal file is a poor third choice of tool. AX has some in the tool cabinets * there might still be a length of threaded rod kicking around the back APOffice. check the lumber piles, and the pile of dexion in the window corner. most likely "1/4-20" might be a "1/4-20" bolt in the boxes of hardware in different places in the back APOffice * be worth putting a tiny drop of liquid lock-tite on each end the rod before mating it with the screw pieces yiLFS -len Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 03:34:54 -0400 From: Joshua Oreman <oremanj@MIT.EDU> To: apo-news@mit.edu Subject: Re: Free tomorrow? Please run to the hardware store for Big Screw 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 >
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