The Official John Lee Jr Thread

[aggie91]

Here is a site that I have had good service from in the past. I have gotten my rod ends form them and they are top quality. Looking over the site I found this page for the rigid rods that are drilled and tapped on each end for Male threaded rod ends. I chose 3/8" size because that rod looks about that diameter in your pictures and from what I remember from my '65.

If you know or can measure the distance betwen the centers of the ends of the current rod, you can find the cut rod that is would work on this table...

http://www.midwestcontrol.com/series.php?id=98

Here are the rod end options for that rod:
http://www.midwestcontrol.com/part_family.php?id=8

They also offer the jam nuts too. I put together this package with a 12" rod (13.58" to 15.126" center to center) and came up with a total of $34.20 for steel parts. The jam nuts are real high at over $5 each, but givent he way it would be installed a single right hand regular nut would work on just the one end and not allow the adjustment to change...:

http://www.midwestcontrol.com/cart.php