Yeah.....About 30 years ago I had the misfortune of working at a small weld shop for a very difficult owner. The Wotan horizontal boring mill pulled the threads out of the table nut. I then told him where he could buy the bronze stock to make a new one. I was not expecting what happened next. He puked onto me the most horrible string of profanity and vulgarisms I'd ever heard, to the effect that he wasn't going to pay me to machine a new nut when he could get the parts from Wotan. After a few phone calls he slinked back and told me that Wotan wanted $5000.00 for the new nut and that it had to be shipped from Germany. The bronze was then ordered and overnighted. If I remember correctly it was 5 TPI on a 50 millimeter shaft.
I quit that place right quickly thereafter.
Bob....not the at.