'47 Desoto Custom Trim Screws

[Bingster]

On the front side chrome trim pieces on my 1947 Desoto custom sedan, they are held on by a short piece of threaded screw stock with a nut a little off center of the middle. These screws unscrewed inside the fender wells and came out okay, and I was going to buy new thread stock and nuts to make new ones. Then it occurred to me how would I keep the nut from turning as I attempted to screw the threaded rod back into the trim piece? I assume that the factory nut is fixed onto the rod permanently.

Does anybody know why they used such a screw as opposed to an ordinary head type screw? Can you get these original types anywhere? Can you make them with rod and nuts and simply glue the net in place on the rod?

Or, just replace them with screws?

Thanks.

David

[Plymouthy Adams]

cut your thread stock to length..run a nut down a bit..place second nut on top of that and torque the two nuts together..you can now insert the stud, tighten it..then loosen the jamb nut and back both nuts off...