Here’s the deal: I have a gas poweed Homelite weed-whacker and the shaft the spool bolts to snapped halfway down it’s length. There is still enough thread inside the shaft to bolt the spool to it…If I only had a screw twice as long as what I have.
No hardware store near me has lef hand threaded anything, and none of the lawnmower/leafblower/weedwhacker repair shops around me have the correct thread.
BTW…the reason this has a left-hand-thread is, becawse of the direction the spool rotates, if it had a regular right-hand thread screw, would constantly unscrew itself from the shaft.
Call Homelite Service & Support – Homelite , or take it to the nearest hardware store, get the thread and screw size (and obviously metric or english), and order the replacement online for left-hand thread.
I assume you are saying you don’t want to bother extracting the residual screw shaft…
Not sure if this helps, but you could cut the head off a regular screw and screw in “head first”, say with vice grips. Then clinch the protruding part of the screw.
All you need do is get right-handed hardware of the proper specifications, then flip it over through a fourth spatial dimension. When you return it to this three-dimensional space, it will be left-handed.
You can pay for the power bill for doing this by using the award money from your Nobel Prize, the one you got for figuring out how to do the flip.
I am not sure I understand. Are you saying that if I flip a threaded rod end for end the thread reverses direction? Because this is just so wrong. A thread is either right or left handed regardless of what end you are looking at. Or maybe I am misunderstanding something.
He’s saying to rotate it through the fourth dimension. Bob Vila did this a few times on This Old House, and of course there was that episode of Home Improvement where Tim tried to do it but wound up losing his pants in the process.
You could rummage around the turnbuckle display in the hardware section of Home Depot. Each one has both a right-hand and a left-hand end, and perhaps there’s one with the right diameter and pitch for your part.