By Vilnis Vesma

One of the finials on a curtain pole (a) had lost its grub screw which kept it in place. Tried an M5 metric bolt (wrong thread pitch) and a Meccano bolt (too small) then rooting around in my box of random hardware I noticed that the threads on the stud of an old drawer pull (b) looked about right and indeed they were (c). So I sawed a slot in the end of the stud (d) and then cut a short length off the end (e). Note the end is held in the vice because I didn’t want to lose it. There we have it (f) the basic grub screw. Deburr the cut end of the thread (g), pop the new screw in place (h) and finally widen the slot with a file (i) to accommodate the screwdriver head. Simples…