So here I am, about to bend some threaded rod to make 2 bolts be one piece of rod to solve all seat bolt spinning issues, I think it was Yoopers who invented this?
Here's my question...why can you buy 3 feet of threaded rod?
It can't only be for people to created their own length of bolt? What would some other uses be?
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I hadn't thought of buying material that was threaded all the way down. The older (better) Miyata seats had bent rods that were just threaded at the ends. So your other option is to tap threads onto a possibly easier to find and work with piece of material.
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If you think about it, you almost answered your own question, Sofa. It gets used for anything you can't buy a standard length bolt for. When i was working in structural steel shops, we called it "allthread." It gets used in embed anchors to join steel to concrete, it also gets a lot of use in forms for pouring concrete for the modern style of buildings that have very little structural steel. Plywood is used for the concrete forms, and it is held together by lots of allthread rods...they use large plastic "nuts" on both sides to hold it all together...once the concrete has cured, the nuts are threaded off, the plywood forms are pulled away, then the protruding rod is cut off with a torch. Just a couple of the many uses for the versatile "allthread."
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