Where to get screws?

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NAFix

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I'm working on a wooden mockup of a new folder design and have hit a snag. I am not a knife maker, but if I get the wood one to work, I can try to get a machinist friend to make a real prototype....To hold the finished wooden thing together (and hell, maybe the eventual finsihed design) I want to use screws and nuts, not pins. But I can't find anything small enough in dimensions I understand. The design, at least as far along as I am on this mockup, requires screws of about 3/64" diameter. I thought the 1-72x1/2" that I found in a local hardware store were smaller than 1/16 diam, but they are larger. The 0-80s they had were smaller but not long enough. When I've gone to miniature screw websites, they list 0-80s, 00-x, 000-x, etc., but none of them show a chart that translates the number of zeros into fractions or decimals of an inch? Knifemaker websites don't go smaller than 0-80 or longer than 1/4". I need smaller diameter of at least 1/2" long???!!! I'll need nuts and drill bits (several because I'll probably break at least a couple), too. The bit I got for the 1-72 screws, is a #49 wire gauge. A wire gauge chart I found shows the decimal/fraction of an inch getting larger as the wire number goes down; i.e., a 0 wire gauge drill bit is much larger than a 0-80 screw. Any sources for understanding these correlations would be much appreciated.
Thanx,
Barry
 
When I did a project needing some teeny tiny screws, the local hobby shop fixed me up. The place carried all kinds of such things used in model trains and R/C cars/planes. As well as fine screwdrivers to handle them.
Good luck with your project!
Phil
 
Thanx guys. Luis, this is exactly what I was looking for, and shaldag I been googlin' for everything I could think of... just must not've googled to the right place or the secret page in the right place... Obviously it was there, and Luis found it for me! Phil, a hobby shop in a real city I'm sure would have it... maybe even the one that calls itself a "hobby" shop in this two-horse town I live in, but I doubt it! I now have links to sites that carry screws of the diameter and length I require (and thanx to Luis I now know what that is!), so I will probably get them on line. Then again, I can usually find what I'm looking for in Vegas ? no not that! ? parts and stuff... got presentation foam cut to size to adapt an old Shrade display case last time I was there...2 bucks. And the best knife shop on the planet (Bond's House of Cutlery) is out on East Sahara... but I digress. To the point, maybe I'll go find a real hobby shop in Vegas when I'm there next month for the NAB convention. hmmm there are other things than gambling in Vague Losses.
Thanx, again,
Barry
 
Schrade, Schrade, Schrade. I apologize. There's something to be said for previewing your posts. And those weird question marks in my text were supposed to be long dashes. I forget most web sites don't understand Macintosh special characters (em dashes, in this case), so they show that confusion with a question mark. Later... Barry


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