On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 01:45:35 -0500, mm
wrote:


Now that I know a name, I searched Lowes.com (coulnd't find them at
Lowes itself, and I did find them

I started the sentence before I searched. I was overly optimistic.
Lowes doesn't have them, it seems.

I misjudged the threaded shaft diameter, and the nuts I got from HD
fit after all. So I can use all 4 original shafts, and 2 nuts out of
8 will be a little bigger and a little lighter brown. I'm done, for
only two dollars.

She said her late husband, who weighed a lot, ruined the ottoman, but
I think the problem was really not tightening the nuts when they first
got loose, and loosing them after they fell off.

My mother would find parts on the floor and save them forever (at
least until her death 50 years later) for when we figured out what
they were for.

In one case, there was a long rivet and a wooden cylinder with a hole
in it, that she kept with other small parts in my desk drawer. I
didn't know they were related, but eventually I noticed the wall
pencil sharpener without a handle on the flat metal arm that was
supposed to turn to do the sharpening. Those were the two missing
parts, and I fixed the thing maybe 15 years after it broke.