Not necessarily smaller. Just use (for instance) M3.5 instead of imperial (which is smaller) and tap the rhread out (or drill out and glue nut on back). Will work just fine. Electrician would tap the thread. A cheap tap tool can be bought for a few pounds and will last a home owner just fine for infrequent use.

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On Sun, 14 Mar 2021 06:17:54 +1100, cantankerous trolling geezer Rodent
Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again:


Rather unlikely he still need to know after 16 years.

You REALLY have absolutely NOBODY to talk to in real life, eh, you sick
sleepless sociopathic swine from Oz? VBG

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Well must be before that 1970s if the threads are imperial, mine are all
metric.
Brian

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Not necessarily smaller. Just use (for instance) M3.5 instead of imperial
(which is smaller) and tap the rhread out (or drill out and glue nut on
back). Will work just fine. Electrician would tap the thread. A cheap tap
tool can be bought for a few pounds and will last a home owner just fine
for infrequent use.

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Hence my comment about how old the installation must be. If you are trying
to fit new screws in old boxes they have to be from the 1960s!

Brian

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Homeowner434 wrote

Not necessarily smaller. Just use (for instance) M3.5 instead of imperial
(which is smaller) and tap the rhread out (or drill out and glue nut on
back). Will work just fine. Electrician would tap the thread. A cheap tap
tool can be bought for a few pounds and will last a home owner just fine
for infrequent use.

Rather unlikely he still need to know after 16 years.

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In article , Brian Gaff \(Sofa\)
wrote:
Hence my comment about how old the installation must be. If you are
trying to fit new screws in old boxes they have to be from the 1960s!

In my box of M3.5 screws I also have an M3.5 tap. Useful when working in
our village hall; and also for sortingb our threads that have got damaged.

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