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

[Richard Knoppow]

     Sounds like it was steam powered (water wheel?)..

On 1/17/2016 12:08 AM, Robert Rode wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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
>         <mailto: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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Richard Knoppow
1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com
WB6KBL

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