This is for Barbara, Try several sizes of agraffes to see if you can find one with the correct thread. Hope they did not use a metric thread. If you find one but the threaded part is too long then determine the deptth of the hole with a probe. Return to the shop and find a nut that will fit on the thread then mark the stem and cut off with a hack saw. Remove the nut to reform the threads at the end then install the agraffe the usual way. If a standard agraffe with not fit get a set of metric and SAE taps and find the one that fits the threads in the plate. Knowing the pitch and diameter of the threaded hole you can go to a machinist and ask him to make you one like your sample but with this thread and thus long. Let me know how you do. Newton nhunt@rci.rutgers.edu
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