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Sirius Glass
Joined: 06 Jun 2010 Posts: 162 Location: Southern California
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Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2012 8:19 pm Post subject: Where can I find small wood screws to mount a lens ring? |
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Where can I find small wood screws to mount a lens ring? A #4 screw has too large a diameter.
Steve _________________ Nothing beats a good piece of glass. |
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1banjo
Joined: 16 Nov 2008 Posts: 492 Location: kansas
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Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2012 8:38 pm Post subject: |
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some times ACE hardwere #2 by 1/4" |
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45PSS
Joined: 28 Sep 2001 Posts: 4081 Location: Mid Peninsula, Ca.
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Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2012 9:13 pm Post subject: |
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A good hardware store, not Home Depot or Lowe's, should have #2 wood screws in 1/4 to 3/8 length.
An alternative is to use #2-56 machine screws and nuts or 3mm machine screws and nuts. Paint the nuts flat black once the flange has been mounted. Brass are most commonly used in lens mounting but zinc coated will work. _________________ The best camera ever made is the one that YOU enjoy using and produces the image quality that satifies YOU. |
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Henry
Joined: 09 May 2001 Posts: 1636 Location: Allentown, Pennsylvania
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Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2012 11:40 pm Post subject: |
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Those little parts drawers at your nearby locally-owned hdw. store should have the little machine screws, like the 2-56 size. Alternatively, try your local model railroad hobby shop. Mine has sizes down to 00-90---too small for my pudgy fingers (of course, the rest of me isn't pudgy---wink, wink). |
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SYNCHROJAMES
Joined: 12 Jun 2007 Posts: 38 Location: SAN DIEGO CA
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Posted: Mon Feb 13, 2012 10:17 pm Post subject: Small Screws |
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I can suggest two sources-your local model train shop, and in San Diego, a store called Marshall's Hardware. Train stores carry 1-72 & 2-56 slot & hex head machine screws (brass), and sheet metal screws in the same size. At Marshall's they carry the slot, as well as wood and sheet metal down to #2, maybe even #1. Marshall's number is (858) 271-5555. Nice thing about Marshall's-priced individually and by the box, so you buy just what you need.
James |
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