On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 18:18:07 +0100, "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:

|In article .com,
| Pat wrote:
| Otherwise, check with your local school and see if their technology
| class has a die so you can cut the threats into another nut. That
| might be a good school project for the teacher. I had threads cut into
| an enlarger's lens holder that way.
|
|Might be difficult. A die cuts the thread on a bolt, etc. You use a tap
|for threads in a hole.

Any one with a small lathe should be able to cut any small thread
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