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Default Brass ACME nut repair

On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:35:35 -0500, Jon Elson
wrote:

You can cut a new screw and a new nut.
Make the screw first, as it is pretty easy to do.

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You can also get a piece of 3-4 X 5 LH "allthread" from the URL I
posted for the nuts
see
http://www.roton.com/Mating_Componen...mber=59502&#PN
for entire rebuild kit [some assembly required]

Unka' George [George McDuffee]
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He that will not apply new remedies,
must expect new evils:
for Time is the greatest innovator: and
if Time, of course, alter things to the worse,
and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better,
what shall be the end?

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Essays, "Of Innovations" (1597-1625).