> On Aug 1, 2017, at 09:52, Rob <[email protected]> wrote: > > One more thought, I wonder if the rubber end caps were 11/32 to fit, or 5/16 > to fit tight on the slick plastic.
That sounds quite plausible. > > So the legs are cut from 11/32 rode. I'd said polyetheleyene, but as I recall > now it's very slick material. I'm thinking now it's more likely PTFE rod. It definitely does not feel like PTFE to me. It's harder, less slippery, and differently colored than PTFE. It feels like delrin, or possibly glass-filled nylon to me. Now that I think about it, they do feel pretty dense to me. That's making me lean more towards thinking that they're a glass-filled plastic. > > The length was likely meant to be cut to 2-1/8, as your measurement is 1/64th > short of that. That much could easily be lost with a quick buffing to smooth > the ends. That sounds quite plausible. They may have been hand-cut, perhaps against an end stop that wasn't adjusted with extreme care... after all, they're just feet that appear to have been made as an afterthought to be crammed into existing screw hole counterbores. -- Mark J. Blair, NF6X <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> http://www.nf6x.net/ <http://www.nf6x.net/>
