[GreenKeys] [ARC5] Source for #2-64 cheesehead screws?

[Pete Lancashire]

they have a catalog you can surf

http://www.elitefastenersinc.com/pdf/elite-fasteners.pdf

On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 6:02 PM, Pete Lancashire <pete at petelancashire.com>
wrote:

> Check a specifically fastener company, you may need to send a picture if
> you do not know the MS number
>
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> http://military-fasteners.elitefastenersinc.com/item/drilled-fillister-head-machine-screws-4/ms-35274-drilled-fillister-head-machine-screws/ms-35274-12-2
>
> for example
>
> Write these guys
>
> elitefastenersinc.com
>
>  never done biz with them just one of the first that came up on Google
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> On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 5:40 PM, drlegendre . <drlegendre at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> If it's a ex-mil item, it may well be a custom screw. The .mil makes all
>> kinds of odd demands of contract manufacturers..
>>
>> So.. if some "standard-issue toolkit" has a small flat-blade driver
>> that's too large for the standard screw head, they might specify the mfr.
>> add a larger head to the existing pattern to work with their tools.
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 7:39 PM, drlegendre . <drlegendre at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> If it's a ex-mil item, it may well be a custom screw. The .mil makes all
>>> kinds of odd demands of contract manufacturers..
>>>
>>> So.. if some "standard-issue toolkit" has a small flat-blade driver
>>> that's too large for the standard screw head, they might specify the mfr.
>>> add a larger head to the existing pattern to work with their tools.
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 7:18 PM, Jim Haynes <jhhaynes at earthlink.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> You remind me of a funny story.  I used to have a friend with a watch
>>>> repair shop.  His workbench was right in the store, so customers
>>>> could see him working (and he could see them come in).  He told me
>>>> about two people who came in once and were watching him intently as
>>>> he worked on a watch.
>>>>
>>>> #1: "How do they make screws that tiny?"
>>>>
>>>> #2: "They don't make them.  They come ready-made."
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