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

[ken Schwieker]

You could chuck up a longer, larger screw in a drill press so you 
could use the thinner side of a file to "machine" the shaft down to 
the appropriate size for the die. After cutting off the chucked up 
portion of the screw re-threading should be possible.
Ken S


 >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, 
> <mailto:hwhall at compuserve.com>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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