jim rozen wrote:
In article , Bob Engelhardt says...

How could that be? It was fitted together before I stripped it.

You kept them apart for too long. All mechanics know that
if you keep stuff disassembled long enough, a) the holes
don't line up any more, and b) the threads all change.

Don't forget c) parts disappear HTH
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