"mm" wrote in message
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On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 09:24:57 GMT, "Noozer" wrote:


"mm" wrote in message
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At a friend's house and she had a footstool assembled with what I
might call headless knobs, or screw-on rivets. They use a piece of
the threaded rod that are used for drawer knobs, in the middle, and on
each end was like a knob except that almost all of it was missing.
Just something like a rivet with a threaded hole in the middle, that
goes all the way through. The shaft is maybe 3/8" and the head is
maybe 1/2" or a little more and only a couple millimeters high, and
the whole thing is 1/2 long.

Is this what you're looking for?

http://www.allproducts.com/metal/eye...ong_t_nut.html

Looking at this again, they call it a prong T nut. I've always called
these T-nuts, but they have a good point. It has prongs. So maybe
what I want is also called a T-nut, just a prongless one. It is
T-shaped, even more so than the ones with prongs. So I'm going to
check this out. Thanks again.

It's a "prong nut", and I've seen them at Home Despot.




Try www.rockler.com
www.mcmastercarr.com

Whatever it is, if the center is threaded, you should be able to tighten it
by temporarily threading a regular screw into it unless it is reverse
threaded ir something odd like that.

Sounds like custom hardware.