[Boatanchors] Yoiks! A restorers worst nightmare

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Try McMaster or one of the other on-line sources of hardware.  If all they 
have are tapped spacers, you can make threaded studs by screwing a long enough 
screw into a screw cutter backwards so that the flattened thread is toward the 
head portion and will be thrown away (many simple crimping tools are dual 
purpose).

In a message dated 2/6/2007 11:06:55 AM Central Standard Time, 
ltaft at charter.net writes: 
> >>HELP! I was restoring my Heathkit LG-1 RF Laboratory Generator,
> >>     
> >replacing
> >   
> >>all caps and out of tolerance resistors, etc., and had just finished the
> >>last step when I noticed that the aluminum spacer in the oscillator
> >>compartment had fallen off. The upside down unit was resting on it and
> >>apparently snapped it off at the threads.
> >>
> >>Why couldn't I have broken a part that was easily replaceable? It is
> >>     
> >Heath
> >   
> >>part number 255-8 and is an aluminum spacer 4 inches long with 7/16 inch
> >>     
> >of
> >   
> >>6-32 threads on each end. Please check your parts boxes and see if you
> >>     
> >have
> >   
> >>something like that

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