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Re: Free tomorrow? Please run to the hardware store for Big Screw
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joni Halabi)
Tue Apr 12 14:34:40 2011
From: "Joni Halabi" <jhalabi@fastmail.net>
To: "Andrew Farrell" <afarrell@mit.edu>
Cc: apo-news@mit.edu, "Joshua Oreman" <oremanj@mit.edu>
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Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:34:37 -0400
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I just tried calling, but wasn't able to leave voice mail. I am
not an MIT student or alum, so I can't get into any non-public
spaces. (This includes the office.) I can meet you somewhere
this afternoon; otherwise I'll just stick with the original plan
of meeting Josh in the office at 6pm. (I just wanted to offer in
case you all need more time for assembly.)
-- Joni
_________________________________________________
Joni Halabi
[1]jhalabi@fastmail.net
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From: "Andrew Farrell" <afarrell@MIT.EDU>
To: jhalabi@fastmail.net
Cc: "Leonard H Tower Jr." <tower@alum.mit.edu>, apo-news@mit.edu,
"Joshua Oreman" <oremanj@mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:19:51 -0400
Subject: Re: Free tomorrow? Please run to the hardware store for
Big Screw
that would be useful.
Perhaps we should meet, though dropping it off asynchronously
would be easier to arrange.
good locations for that are Random, SIPB, possibly the office
although I do not have card access since I'm a pledge.
My phone number is (518) 250-9263
-- Andrew Farrell
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Joni Halabi
<[2]jhalabi@fastmail.net> wrote:
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
[3]jhalabi@fastmail.net
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From: "Leonard H Tower Jr." <[4]tower@alum.mit.edu>
To: [5]apo-news@mit.edu
Cc: "Joshua Oreman" <[6]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 <[7]oremanj@MIT.EDU>
To: [8]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
<[9]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
>
References
1. mailto:jhalabi@fastmail.net
2. mailto:jhalabi@fastmail.net
3. mailto:jhalabi@fastmail.net
4. mailto:tower@alum.mit.edu
5. mailto:apo-news@mit.edu
6. mailto:oremanj@mit.edu
7. mailto:oremanj@MIT.EDU
8. mailto:apo-news@mit.edu
9. mailto:oremanj@mit.edu
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I just tried calling, but wasn't able to leave voice mail. I am not an MIT student or alum, so I can't get into any non-public spaces. (This includes the office.) I can meet you somewhere this afternoon; otherwise I'll just stick with the original plan of meeting Josh in the office at 6pm. (I just wanted to offer in case you all need more time for assembly.)</div>
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that would be useful.
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Perhaps we should meet, though dropping it off asynchronously would be easier to arrange.</div>
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good locations for that are Random, SIPB, possibly the office although I do not have card access since I'm a pledge.</div>
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My phone number is (518) 250-9263</div>
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-- Andrew Farrell<br />
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On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Joni Halabi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jhalabi@fastmail.net">jhalabi@fastmail.net</a>></span> wrote:<br />
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Is this all for the piece that I'm getting from the engravers? Do you<br />
need me to drop it off earlier (i.e. if you need to put everything<br />
together before the ceremony tonight)?<br />
<br />
<br />
_________________________________________________<br />
<span style="color: #888888; "> Joni Halabi<br />
<a href="mailto:jhalabi@fastmail.net">jhalabi@fastmail.net</a><br />
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Cc: "Joshua Oreman" <<a href="mailto:oremanj@mit.edu">oremanj@mit.edu</a>><br />
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:02:54 -0400 (EDT)<br />
Subject: Re: Free tomorrow? Please run to the hardware store for Big<br />
Screw<br />
<br />
* get a "1/4-20" nut as well. if you cut threads, they need to be<br />
repaired<br />
<br />
the tool of choice is a "1/4-20" die, but a nut does in a pinch<br />
<br />
a small metal file is a poor third choice of tool. AX has some in<br />
the tool cabinets<br />
<br />
* there might still be a length of threaded rod kicking around the<br />
back APOffice. check the lumber piles, and the pile of dexion in<br />
the window corner. most likely "1/4-20"<br />
<br />
might be a "1/4-20" bolt in the boxes of hardware in different<br />
places in the back APOffice<br />
<br />
* be worth putting a tiny drop of liquid lock-tite on each end the rod<br />
before mating it with the screw pieces<br />
<br />
yiLFS -len<br />
<br />
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 03:34:54 -0400<br />
From: Joshua Oreman <<a href="mailto:oremanj@MIT.EDU">oremanj@MIT.EDU</a>><br />
To: <a href="mailto:apo-news@mit.edu">apo-news@mit.edu</a><br />
Subject: Re: Free tomorrow? Please run to the hardware store for Big<br />
Screw<br />
<br />
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 2:56 AM, Joshua Oreman <<a href="mailto:oremanj@mit.edu">oremanj@mit.edu</a>><br />
wrote:<br />
> Hi all,<br />
><br />
> Big Screw needs your help. The screw trophy has been repaired by<br />
> removing the old broken-off connecting screw, but we are without a new<br />
> piece of threaded rod to insert into it and put everything back<br />
> together. I have to be in lab all day tomorrow.<br />
><br />
> If you have an hour free tomorrow, could you please take one of the<br />
> old connecting pieces (it's conveniently sitting right next to the<br />
> screw trophy!) to a hardware store and ask for a duplicate of it?<br />
> Please let me know if you can do this, so I won't worry.<br />
><br />
> Thank you so much!<br />
<br />
Update: Instead of leaving the connector out where it could easily<br />
roll off the cabinet and never be seen again, I've measured it. It's<br />
1.25" long, 0.25" major diameter, and 20 threads per inch. In<br />
screw-speak this is a "1/4-20" thread, which is a standard size of<br />
coarse screw.<br />
<br />
If a threaded rod can't be found, we can get a long screw and cut off<br />
the head.<br />
<br />
Josh<br />
<br />
><br />
> Josh<br />
><br />
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