[sdiy] UNEF threads

[Simon Gatrall]

At 2:21 PM +0200 5/16/03, jhaible at debitel.net wrote:
>Here's a mechanical question about mounting potentiometers
>on a front panel:
>
>If a pot is specified to have a
>
>1/4-32 UNEF-2A  thread,
>
>is this a *standard* 1/4" Unified Extra Fine thread,
>or does the -32 and -2A part mean a variation of the
>standard ?

32 is the the number of threads per inch, and 2A is the thread class 
- basically how accurate the threads are.  The thread class isn't 
that essential for your purposes, but the 1/4-32 is.  1/4-32 UNEF-2A 
is a standard size, but no where near as common as 1/4-20.

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Simon Gatrall
gatrall at pacbell.net