Hey, what are some common hardware sizes? I'm not entirely sure where to begin. I am designing a project that will need a few nuts and bolts and non of it is load bearing. Is there a common hardware convention I can find? If I go to home-depot or something there are thousands of sizes.
Any help would be great thanks.
#8 phillips / 1/4" hex are common and all over everything.
7/16 9/16 1/2.
>>901156
>#8 phillips / 1/4" hex are common and all over everything.
>7/16 9/16 1/2.
>imperial
top kek
>>901156
thanks big help
>>901159
>Not offering up an alternative.
>>901144
That's vague.
US? DIY? English threads. #6, #8, 1/4", on up. UNC and UNF for fine and coarse on bolts. Size of bolt more or less coresponds to size of hole needed. There are charts online.
Rest of world? Metric. M4-M-whatever. Find and coarse threads. Size is M6 = 6mm.
Wood? Wood screws or carriage bolts.
Sheet metal? Sheet metal screws.
Engineered object with castings and thick parts? Nuts and bolts. And even in US, most likely metric, esp if not US made.
>>901159
Most of the screws holding your PC together are 6-32. Oooooooooohhhhhh
>>901220
no none of them are
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>>901213
the metric world still uses imperial everything fyi. hardware store sells imperial carriage bolts for example. they cost like a dollar compared to the metric bolts that cost 15$ for the same size.
>>901233
did you check your motherboard? because those are the motherboard screws. the pads on all motherboards are that size and the mounts in cases. I guess you could have swapped them over over m4 but why?
>>901244
Maybe in Merkia.
In civilisation, everything with a thread that receives a nut is an M-whatever.
