I bought a hole saw from Harbor Freight (yes, I know) and I chewed up
the set screw. I'm pretty sure it's a M5 x 1.0. Any kind of screw
head configuration would be OK, but I'd prefer anything but slotted so
that I can crank it down hard. But I can't find this screw size/pitch
in any configuration. I've looked at lowes, home depot, grainger,
mcmaster and fastenal with no luck.


--zeb

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I bought a hole saw from Harbor Freight (yes, I know) and I chewed up
the set screw. I'm pretty sure it's a M5 x 1.0. Any kind of screw
head configuration would be OK, but I'd prefer anything but slotted so
that I can crank it down hard. But I can't find this screw size/pitch
in any configuration. I've looked at lowes, home depot, grainger,
mcmaster and fastenal with no luck.

Do you mean M5 x 1"? It sounds like a 5 mm metric screw, and the closest
would be M5 x 25 mm. That's a standard item here in the UK.

Leon

wrote:
I bought a hole saw from Harbor Freight (yes, I know) and I chewed up
the set screw. I'm pretty sure it's a M5 x 1.0. Any kind of screw
head configuration would be OK, but I'd prefer anything but slotted so
that I can crank it down hard. But I can't find this screw size/pitch
in any configuration. I've looked at lowes, home depot, grainger,
mcmaster and fastenal with no luck.


--zeb

Zeb,

If you might mean a 5mm (diameter) x .8mm(pitch) x 10 mm long set screw
(hex drive), then I have them and would drop a couple in a letter to
you, if you'd like. If you e-mail me direct with your address I'll send
you one and one for a spare free gratis.

John

If you might mean a 5mm (diameter) x .8mm(pitch) x 10 mm long
Remember that 10-32 and M5x0.8 are often mistaken for each other...

On 25 Jan 2005 10:00:52 -0800, Tim Shoppa wrote:
If you might mean a 5mm (diameter) x .8mm(pitch) x 10 mm long
Remember that 10-32 and M5x0.8 are often mistaken for each other...

Been there, done that. Didn't like it.

writes:

I bought a hole saw from Harbor Freight (yes, I know) and I chewed up
the set screw. I'm pretty sure it's a M5 x 1.0. Any kind of screw
head configuration would be OK, but I'd prefer anything but slotted so
that I can crank it down hard. But I can't find this screw size/pitch
in any configuration. I've looked at lowes, home depot, grainger,
mcmaster and fastenal with no luck.

Your metrology is likely mistaken.

NAPA auto parts stores usually have a array of bins of metric and inch
fasterners, and you can buy exactly one.

Tim Shoppa wrote:
If you might mean a 5mm (diameter) x .8mm(pitch) x 10 mm long

Remember that 10-32 and M5x0.8 are often mistaken for each other...

No, this is a M5 x0.8, we have stock of everything from M3 thru M10 in
set screws and soc. hd. caps. I just thought if Zeb was in a location
where he didn't have ready access to the screw I'd just send him a couple.

--1-800-SB-BOLTS. They could probably pop one in an envelope but I
suspect postage will cost more than the bolt... Plan B: got a junkyard
nearby? ;-)

--
"Steamboat Ed" Haas : Heartily sick of
Hacking the Trailing Edge! : "oldies" stations!
http://www.nmpproducts.com/intro.htm
---Decks a-wash in a sea of words---

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says...
writes:

I bought a hole saw from Harbor Freight (yes, I know) and I chewed up
the set screw. I'm pretty sure it's a M5 x 1.0. Any kind of screw
head configuration would be OK, but I'd prefer anything but slotted so
that I can crank it down hard. But I can't find this screw size/pitch
in any configuration. I've looked at lowes, home depot, grainger,
mcmaster and fastenal with no luck.

Your metrology is likely mistaken.

Or it's just a little off and the screw is a 10-24. An M5X1
thread is not unheard of, but I can't imagine why it would
be used on a holesaw and the chances of finding an M5x1
screw are pretty slim.

My bet's on the 10-24.

Ned Simmons

wrote:
I bought a hole saw from Harbor Freight (yes, I know) and I chewed up
the set screw. I'm pretty sure it's a M5 x 1.0. Any kind of screw
head configuration would be OK, but I'd prefer anything but slotted
so
that I can crank it down hard. But I can't find this screw
size/pitch
in any configuration. I've looked at lowes, home depot, grainger,
mcmaster and fastenal with no luck.


--zeb

Yes, that's M5 diameter x 1.0mm pitch. Thanks, but M5 x 0.8mm (which
I can find everywhere) doesnt fit.

Got a tap set? Drill and tap to a common size.
--
Steve Williams

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wrote:
I bought a hole saw from Harbor Freight (yes, I know) and I chewed
up
the set screw. I'm pretty sure it's a M5 x 1.0. Any kind of
screw
head configuration would be OK, but I'd prefer anything but slotted
so
that I can crank it down hard. But I can't find this screw
size/pitch
in any configuration. I've looked at lowes, home depot, grainger,
mcmaster and fastenal with no luck.


--zeb

Yes, that's M5 diameter x 1.0mm pitch. Thanks, but M5 x 0.8mm (which
I can find everywhere) doesnt fit.

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 13:32:31 -0600, the inscrutable Richard J Kinch
spake:

writes:

I bought a hole saw from Harbor Freight (yes, I know) and I chewed up
the set screw. I'm pretty sure it's a M5 x 1.0. Any kind of screw
head configuration would be OK, but I'd prefer anything but slotted so
that I can crank it down hard. But I can't find this screw size/pitch
in any configuration. I've looked at lowes, home depot, grainger,
mcmaster and fastenal with no luck.

Your metrology is likely mistaken.

Why not drill it out and tap to the next size you have in stock, OP?


NAPA auto parts stores usually have a array of bins of metric and inch
fasterners, and you can buy exactly one.

Harbor Fright has a dozen of those nice little packages full of
interesting hardware. I have their outside snap-rings, setscrews,
hitch pins, compresson/extension springs, roll pins, etc. which are
all nicely made. But their screws, some of the most god-awful metal
screws that man has ever produced, SUCK! The rest are truly a good
value and handy to have. The packages cost between $3 and $10. The
next time I'm in there I'll pick up the allen head cap screw pack.



--

People will occasionally stumble over the truth, but
most of the time they'll pick themselves up and carry on.
--anon

Are you sure it's really metric and not a 10-24?

since 5x1 aint a standard, perhaps it is a 10-24
..041 pitch vs .039

5 x .8 is very nearly 10-32 is what makes me think of it

wrote:
wrote:

I bought a hole saw from Harbor Freight (yes, I know) and I chewed up
the set screw. I'm pretty sure it's a M5 x 1.0. Any kind of screw
head configuration would be OK, but I'd prefer anything but slotted

so

that I can crank it down hard. But I can't find this screw

size/pitch

in any configuration. I've looked at lowes, home depot, grainger,
mcmaster and fastenal with no luck.


--zeb


Yes, that's M5 diameter x 1.0mm pitch. Thanks, but M5 x 0.8mm (which
I can find everywhere) doesnt fit.

you know every once in a while my newsreader gets resorted and I don't
notice........

wrote:
wrote:

I bought a hole saw from Harbor Freight (yes, I know) and I chewed up
the set screw. I'm pretty sure it's a M5 x 1.0. Any kind of screw
head configuration would be OK, but I'd prefer anything but slotted

so

that I can crank it down hard. But I can't find this screw

size/pitch

in any configuration. I've looked at lowes, home depot, grainger,
mcmaster and fastenal with no luck.


--zeb


Yes, that's M5 diameter x 1.0mm pitch. Thanks, but M5 x 0.8mm (which
I can find everywhere) doesnt fit.

So what's standard about metric?

Sometime in the 1960's, some Japanese motorcycle makers went over to a
metric "ISO" system - they previously another.
So, suggest you try a "vintage" m/cycle group.
I had a '63 Rabbit motorscooter that used (I'm pretty sure) the 5 x 1mm
thread you're after.

Jordan

"You'll never be a rooter for any other scooter."

yourname wrote:
since 5x1 aint a standard, perhaps it is a 10-24