Floorboard

[serocontra]

Originally Posted by BRENT in 10-uh-C

Not sure what "not looking to win any shows..." has to do with doing something the correct way (-really doesn't matter if it is a Model-A or something else) but the easiest way to correct the misdrilled holes is to drill oversized and glue in a wood dowel to fill the hole. Use a #12 screw that fits the D-nut and cut to approximately 3/8 - 1/2 inch long. Insert the screw into a drill motor and spin while grinding one end to a sharp point. Then insert the screw with the point facing upward and when the floorboard is positioned correctly, push downward on the floorboard and the point will make a divot where the new hole is to be drilled.

Meaning I’m not going for stock awards, yet.
Very clever. I will employ that trick.

[rackops]

I'm in the "screw it down because they're supposed to be" club. What I would love to find though are 12-24 Robertson screws (trust me, I've looked and unless I want to buy 1000 of them, they aren't around) as they'd be so much easier to remove and install than the flat head screws.

That said, I rarely ever remove the floorboards, so it's one of those things I live with.

(Oh, I also bent the washers so they are more accurate per the JS than the as-purchased concave ones...but again...probably a little bit over the top...)

[Brentwood Bob]

When replacing the floor boards I put threadstock in each clinch nut in the subframe. The top of the threadstock was ground to a sharp point. This located the hole to drill. Went one at a time.

[Brentwood Bob]

When replacing the floor boards I put threadstock in each clinch nut in the subframe. The top of the threadstock was ground to a sharp point. This located the hole to drill. Went one at a time. I don’t believe there was a template to locate the holes at the factory.

[Brentwood Bob]

Oops

[TomInCologne]

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sorry, i don't know (and google doesn't either) what threadstock means. Can you please send a photo?

[Y-Blockhead]

Originally Posted by TomInCologne

sorry, i don't know (and google doesn't either) what threadstock means. Can you please send a photo?

Maybe he is referring to All Thread (threaded rod)? Similar to this; https://www.amazon.com/National-Hard...80&sr=8-5&th=1

[JayJay]

Originally Posted by Y-Blockhead

Maybe he is referring to All Thread (threaded rod)? Similar to this; https://www.amazon.com/National-Hard...80&sr=8-5&th=1

Y-B, that's threaded 1/4-20. Wrong thread. You need threadstock in 12-24. If you try 1/4-20 it will go in a little way and then jam, bougering up the threads in the D-nuts. I did find this stuff on the river store https://www.amazon.com/Pieces-12-24x...57&sr=8-1&th=1 but that's a lot of stock for what you need it for. McMaster-Carr has it, pack of 10 @ 1" long https://www.mcmaster.com/95475A405/ or much cheaper to buy a 1 ft or 2 ft length.

Tom, for what shipping from the US would cost you might do better to find round stock in Germany (#12 is 5.556 mm diameter) and buy a 12-24 die, do it yourself.

[Y-Blockhead]

Originally Posted by JayJay

Y-B, that's threaded 1/4-20. Wrong thread. You need threadstock in 12-24.

That is why I said "similar". I didn't know the correct size thread, I was just using that as an example to explain what All Thread/Thread Stock looked like for TomInCologne... Geez, so picky!

[Brentwood Bob]

Yep