Hi chadxp1
Glad to read you are going to keep the golden rods. Attached is a tool that someone else suggested for threading the threaded rod into the center, hollow, plastic rod. It works GREAT!!! The electric wire nut is filled with epoxie. A metal clevis is inserted into the epoxie. I also thread on a short piece of threaded rod into the clevice which will serve to stop to prevent the rod you are enserting into the plastic from going too far into the tool clevis. The explanation is a bit complicated but the tool is GREAT!!! Let me know what you and others think.