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Default Threaded rod for tap

On 30/01/2012 23:50 Frank Erskine wrote:

On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:21:26 +0000, Fnews@nowhere wrote:

On 30/01/2012 20:25 Bob Minchin wrote:

F wrote:
We have a kitchen tap which was held in place in the draining board with
two threaded rods. One end of each rod went into the tap base, the other
had a nut on which was screwed up against a plate to spread the load
across the underside of the draining board.

The tap now needs to be mounted on a 30mm quartz worktop and the screwed
rods are too short so I need to find longer ones. They are ~6mm in
diameter but I don't know what to look for in terms of thread size. Is
there a standard 'kitchen-tap-threaded-rod'?

Most likely to be M6. Measure the pitch over many threads. M6 has a 1mm
pitch.


Looks like 1mm pitch to me: thanks!


Use either brass or stainless steel replacement, rather than just
zinc-coated steel :-)


Thanks, I've got stainless on the way.

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