[ARC5] Source for #2-64 cheesehead screws?

[Robert Rode]

P.S.,...When I started there, all machines were driven by over head shafts
and leather flat belts,...We didnt need no  stinking CNC stuff !   ( There
wasnt any )..The centerless grinder had 5 belts u had to get between..


On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 1:56 AM, Robert Rode <midnitetoaker58 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> You guys sure are talking about small stuff, I hope you can even see it
> let alone cut them on a lathe..When I was an apprentice, I made a couple of
> "button heads" for my dial indicator they had 48 threads, I cut them on an
> old military paid for Monarch Lathe at International Harvester Co. ..think
> It was a 18 x 72 inch machine,..Always a "glutton" for punishment,..That
> was in 1971, I cud see back then !!   18 inch diameter chuck.....we used to
> always see who cud do stuff !! WE decided to see how many guys cud machine
> off figures on both sides of a penny,..First die I made wud trim the O.D.
> off a penny and use it as a dime in coffee machine..
>
> On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 12:04 AM, <hwhall at compuserve.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for all the suggestions so far, though the closest is a standard
>> fillister head which isn't wide enough. From the specs accompanying
>> fillister screws, the standard fillister head appears to be 1.6 times as
>> wide as the major 2-64 thread diameter.  The screw I need to replace has a
>> head that is 2.5 times the thread diameter.
>>
>> A pan head is nearer the right relative size, at 2.1 times the thread
>> diameter. If I go up to a screw size with a suitable head dia though, it
>> looks like I'm at a thread dia that I can't get into the 2-64 die to try to
>> rethread it. Maybe what I need is a micro machinist?
>>
>> Wayne
>> WB4OGM
>>
>> > On 1/16/2016 2:49 PM, hwhall at compuserve.com wrote:
>> >> I'm hoping someone knows where to find an odd item like this one.
>> >> It's to replace the lockdown screw on a WWII-vintage altimeter. The
>> >> original was blackened brass, with a square shouldered head (which
>> >> I've heard called cheeseheads) 7/32 inch in diameter & 1/16 inch
>> >> thick. Threads were #2-64 & a little less than 1/4 inch long.
>> >> McMaster-Carr, normally a name to conjure with, doesn't have anything
>> >> that small, and that's an unusually large head for such small threads.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks & 73,
>> >>
>> >> Wayne
>> >> WB4OGM
>>
>>
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