Weird hex size

Jan 03, 2010 4 Replies
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Hello. I have M3-threaded hex spacers with about 4.53 mm across flats. What could be the nominal size be ? It's way too small to be 5 mm, probably too big to be 4.5 mm and it's 5% away from



3/16" (~4.76 mm) which looks at bit too sloppy to be true.
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On Sun, 3 Jan 2010 09:39:05 +0000 (UTC), the infamous Andre Majorel scrawled the following:

Oh, shucks! When I read the subject line, I thought this was going to be a nice witchy thread starting up. Darn.

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I'd call it at 4.5 mm.. The difference of .03 mm is equivalent to .

00118", well within 'normal' manufacturing tolerance and certainly a 4.5mm > Hello. I have M3-threaded hex spacers with about 4.53 mm across
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5mm. See:

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