Source for odd screws in the SF bay area ?

"Scott Moore" wrote: Anyone found a good source for odd screws in the SF bay area ? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I have had good luck dealing with Bowlin Equipment, 1107 10th Street, Berkeley, 510 527-8282. If they don't have it, they can often suggest a source, and they're really nice people.

Fastenall,

has more than 1400 stores. Got to be one near SF. If they ain't got it, it ain't made.

Karl

On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 06:09:17 GMT, Scott Moore calmly ranted:

Try down around the docks, say Bay Street. I don't know if they troll Lombard or Broadway any more with all those cops. What? OH, you meant HARDWARE, didn't you. Sorry.

that's what you're after. Try these guys in San Jose, less than an hour away (non-rush-hour on a good day.) ;)

Or you might run it past a print shop. They might know the local hardware sources pretty well and could point you in the right direction if they didn't stock one.

- Metaphors Be With You -

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Can you cheat by finding a pan head and turning down the OD of the head?

Jeff

My fave: The Olander Company Inc. is located at 144 Commercial Street, Sunnyvale, CA 94086 Call Toll Free (800) 538-1500 Fax: (408) 735-6515 E-mail: snipped-for-privacy@olander.com

Plug in 'cheese' into the search window and hit 'go'.

--Winston

A cheese head screw is vey close in diameter, if not the same diameter, as a fillister head screw. Which is the same diameter as a socket head cap screw. At least that's how I remember it. Ah, here it is. An example: M5 cheese head dia.= 8.5 to 8.14 M5 socket head dia. = 8.5 to 8.72 So, a metric SHCS screw will almost surely work if the bore is deep enough. The SHCS head is a little taller. You could make the head shorter by facing the socket end. I know it's not the same look but maybe that doesn't matter to you. Or, you could just look a little longer under the bench where the original probably rolled. :) ERS

I figgered he knew about the diameter thing already but wanted the same look as the other screws, so that's why I suggested starting with a pan head. If the turned down head didn't come out quite thick enough, a washer under it could raise it up a bit. Or, you could just look a little

I still do what I did when I was a kid and lost a marble....

That's tossing an identical part under the bench, while keeping my eye on where it's going, and saying, "Brother, go find your brother."

Only works if you are a true believer...

A frequently used tool in my home shop is a homemade "magnet stick", a three foot long 1/2" dowel with a strong "rare earth" magnet securely taped to its end. Ninty percent of the stuff I drop under the bench is magnetic, so the odds are with me.

Jeff

Normally I would, however, I am still in the phase of putting walls and power into the shop.

Low head socket cap screw?--8.5 dia x 3.5 high head for an M5.

But McMaster does have metric cheese heads. And why in the world are they called "cheese heads"?

Ned Simmons

Yeah.... when I was a kid and lost my chewing gum in the chicken coop, I thought I found it 3 times..... sigh Ken.

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Picture a wheel of cheese. (Yes, I know that it is seldom seen in that shape these days.)

Now -- cut a slot across the top and you have something which looks like a larger "cheese head" screw. No dome to the top -- totally flat. No bevel on the edges -- totally cylindrical.

Enjoy, DoN.

One idea -

"Nuts To You " Fasteners

406S. HillView Drive Milpitas Ca, 95035 Telephone : 408 956 0370.

The President of the company is Tim Doyle if that helps.

Martin

If you look at the profile of the head, it has verticle walls, a domed top and a flat bottom - much like a 'wheel' of cheese. Must have been a cheese head that named it.

Martin :-)

The ones which I have seen have had a totally *flat* head, not domed. Otherwise, it would match the description of another type, "fillister" head, I think.

A domed head would represent a spoiled wheel of cheese, I think.)

Enjoy, DoN.