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Antipodes
11th August 2012, 11:16 PM
I've got a really nice mid-century Sweden rosewood coffee table I'm doing up. I've sanded back the rundown top and nitro-ed it. Now I'm ready to put the legs on and it has a very quirky attachment system using these unique metal parts.

You'll note the screw part has shorn off one of them. Now this is nothing more (I'm guessing) than a parallel-edged screw (a hefty 5mm one) welded to the other metal part. I have never at any point seen a screw like this in any of the hardware chains here. Any idea what a screw like this would be called and where I might be able to get one (1) because that all I really need.

The alternative would be to do a much less sturdy casting in tin or something but that's an absolutely last resort.

Any ideas?

_fly_
11th August 2012, 11:21 PM
Or find a forum member to weld another coach bolt to the blade.
There has got to be someone in sydney that can do that.

cava
12th August 2012, 12:04 AM
The welded coach bolt appears to be the better option.

Antipodes
12th August 2012, 07:50 AM
Ok so I'm looking for a coach bolt. Welding I can sort through a mate. It was the actual terminology of the missing bit I was after......but it's just a common or garden bolt. Much appreciated.

NZStu
12th August 2012, 09:35 AM
Pics of the table too please! I'm a big fan of mid century Scandinavian furniture.

Antipodes
12th August 2012, 07:44 PM
Don't think I've got one....the thing has been in bits for a while. But here's a couple of Swedish armchairs I had done up which are a couple of decades older. Just because they're, you know, Swedish.