My thread tensioner

[bud8fan]

First off
Billy,
I put a nut onto the rod prior to the wingnut and locked them together and from what I can see this will prevent the tension from changing one way or another. I was planning on possibly making up some washers by getting ones that are exactly 1/4" id and filing the hole into a D but then you have to put a D into the rod. Then unless you tap the washer how are you going to get it onto the rod? If the nut works I will probably just leave it alone for now! Unless I can find some old clemens parts or something!

John,
I sure wish I had known that alot of you guys would have wanted something like this! Then I would have just gone out and bought enough aluminum stock to make half a dozen sets or so!
Then when we were doing all the machining it would have been simple to produce them as I could have milled them in multiples!!!
I did make a duplicate tensioner but its spoken for!

I will keep my eyes open at work for some aluminum stock but we dont do the heavier stuff very much anymore.
If I do get some and can get permission again to do the work I will keep you in mind John!!!

Russ