Mike,

I apologize for leading you astray a bit, I just noticed that the bolt you have has unthreaded portion under head (must be a fairly long bolt eh?) so cutting that one short would not work. You should be able to get the rights sized, fully threaded bolt at the HW store.

good luck

alistair
On 2012-12-13, at 8:34 AM, Mike South wrote:

> Thanks Alistair--I had thought about just cutting it but I didn't know what it would do to the bottom of the threads.  Not that I know if I have an M8 1.25 nut but I can get that when I go out today to try a actual hardware store (last night I just went to the two home improvment stores that are right next to each other and it was too late to go anywhere else) and see if I can get an exact match.  If not, I'll go with the hacksaw method.
> 
> I hope this list is still running when the zombie apocalypse comes.
> 
> mike