Look at NARTS for $5.00.

You can make a replacement hub by making a trip to an Ace Hardware and maybe even a Home Depot or Lowes and looking for one of the following items that would fit in the hole and adding a big washer and a retaining nut:

http://www.homedepot.com/p/Watts-3-...02254880?N=butv

I doubt you'll find a retaining nut for that at any of those places. It's a pipe thread.

A bulkhead fitting would be better:

http://www.mcmaster.com/#brass-bulk...ittings/=p58l6n

I have indeed. I'll double check to see if the threaded section that fits in the Estes deflector hole is really pipe thread or not, but it looks exactly like the picture.

perhaph a rigid conduit nut. I believe they are pipe taper.

Yes.

Available at many stores.

A homemade roll pin would work as well. The blast deflector of my mid-1960s vintage Estes Tilt-A-Pad had a roll pin that fit halfway through the hole in the center of the blast deflector. The hole in the current-day Estes blast deflector is a bit larger, but a roll pin would work in it as well (it could even be made of thicker-gauge steel, to reduce the blast deflector's "play" on the launch rod).

Pipe thread but not tapered but you don't want tapered so that would work. The smallest conduit nut I've seen is 1/2".

Is that "seen" as in "in person" or "seen" as in "after Googling"?

Google "3/8 pipe thread nut":

https://www.google.com/search?q=3%2...earchBox&ie=&oe=

Ditto for the barbed nipple:

https://www.google.com/search?q=3%2...earchBox&ie=&oe=

Again, I cannot recall if the 3/8 size is the correct size for the Estes deflectors, but I've bought something at Ace hardware for several deflectors that I've repaired in the past. Don;t forget a washer as well to cover the side lobe holes.

Ceramic blast deflectors FTW.



Just get a tile, under a buck for one, and drill a hole with a small masonry bit. I have actually fitted screws to the rods to secure the plates, but it's not like they're going anywhere.

The tile takes heat quite well, never burns through, and doesn't short the clips either.

EDIT: Obviously, this is a new tile. I've used them many times, and while they are all kind of nasty looking now, they are all still serviceable.