[GreenKeys] 6-40 UNF and other wierd screw sizes

Buzz [email protected]
Mon, 23 Dec 2002 19:39:19 -0800


Actually a lot of the screws used by TTY are known as UNF (Unified =
National Fine).  Here are some of
them from, Machinery's Handbook, 2-64, 3-56, 4-48, 5-44, 6-40, 8-36, =
10-32.  The most popular are
the UNC (Unified National Coarse)  2-56, 3-48, 4-40, 5-40, 6-32, 8-32, =
10-24.

Buzz

On Mon, 23 Dec 2002 15:48:16 EST, you wrote:
>Anyone have a preferred source of fine thread machine screws in modest=20
>quantities? 6-40, 5-44, 8-36 etc. There must have been a ready source in=
=20
>Skokie, Illinois years ago, because these machines are full of them.
>
>73 Jim Young W8MAQ
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