WTB #6-32 7/16" Screws

[sumpak]

Anybody has couple laying around?

#6-32 7/16"

 

[Lasvegasraised]

I can get you some if you need but the lengths would be 1/2 and 3/8 long do you want pan Phil ms or socket heads.

 

[NYECOGunsmith]

As noted, what type of head?

I have several types in 6-32 x1/2", can stick them in the lathe and face off that extra 1/16th inch.
But I'm in Pahrump.
Or, you can pick up the type you need in 1/2" length and get a hardened steel screw checker plate ($20, Amazon) put the screw through it, grind or fill off the last 1/16" down to the hardened plate.

You might also try a pair of Electrician's wire strippers, most have threaded holes in them for 6-32, 8-32 and 10-32 screws, you screw the screw into the threaded size, then close the handles and it trims the screw to the length you want.

 

[NYECOGunsmith]

Like these from Home Depot

$14

 

[NYECOGunsmith]

If you have a 6-32 tap, you can drill a 7/64" Ø hole in a piece of steel flat stock, tap it (you can get the tap and 7/64" drill bit and a piece of mild steel flatstock all at Home Depot for under $20) then screw a 1/2" 6-32 nut onto the screw, then the screw into the hole you just tapped, run the screw through until 1/16th inch sticks out, then tighten the nut against the flat stock to jam the screw in place so it won't rotate while you file or grind it down to the 7/16" length you need.
Gunsmiths call that flatstock screw holder a "Screw Gizzy", we usually make them in 3-56, 4-40, 6-48 and 8-40 for the common screw sizes on guns, and then harden them so that a file won't cut them so we can easily file a screw to fit for length.
You do that on custom guns or quality repairs to get the screw to the perfect length so that when all the screws are tightened down completely, the screw slots all line up in the same direction.

 

[Luxom]

As noted, what type of head?

I have several types in 6-32 x1/2", can stick them in the lathe and face off that extra 1/16th inch.
But I'm in Pahrump.
Or, you can pick up the type you need in 1/2" length and get a hardened steel screw checker plate ($20, Amazon) put the screw through it, grind or fill off the last 1/16" down to the hardened plate.

You might also try a pair of Electrician's wire strippers, most have threaded holes in them for 6-32, 8-32 and 10-32 screws, you screw the screw into the threaded size, then close the handles and it trims the screw to the length you want.
If you have a 6-32 tap, you can drill a 7/64" Ø hole in a piece of steel flat stock, tap it (you can get the tap and 7/64" drill bit and a piece of mild steel flatstock all at Home Depot for under $20) then screw a 1/2" 6-32 nut onto the screw, then the screw into the hole you just tapped, run the screw through until 1/16th inch sticks out, then tighten the nut against the flat stock to jam the screw in place so it won't rotate while you file or grind it down to the 7/16" length you need.
Gunsmiths call that flatstock screw holder a "Screw Gizzy", we usually make them in 3-56, 4-40, 6-48 and 8-40 for the common screw sizes on guns, and then harden them so that a file won't cut them so we can easily file a screw to fit for length.
You do that on custom guns or quality repairs to get the screw to the perfect length so that when all the screws are tightened down completely, the screw slots all line up in the same direction.

Man sometimes I want to hang out around your house and ask you questions about machine work just to watch you explain.

 

[NYECOGunsmith]

Man sometimes I want to hang out around your house and ask you questions about machine work just to watch you explain.

You suffer from insomnia? That's the reason most folks want to listen to me explain things in the shop.

 

[JTW_Jr]

I just shortened a dozen 2" long 6-32 to 1/2 tonight, cause I didn't want to wait for Lowes or Ace to open in the morning.

 

[NYECOGunsmith]

Pretty much any hardware store will have several types of 6-32 screws, pan head, flat head, oval head, hex head, as well as Allen head socket type.
But machine screws generally come in increments of 1/8", not 1/16", so if you need one exactly 7/16" long (and is that overall length, or the under the head length of the shank?) It will either be a custom order or shorten a 1/2" one.

 

[NYECOGunsmith]

I just shortened a dozen 2" long 6-32 to 1/2 tonight, cause I didn't want to wait for Lowes or Ace to open in the morning.

That long to that short is easy, run three nuts onto it past the point where you want to cut it off, jam nut two of them to keep it from spinning.

Clamp the nuts in a vise, cut it off with a fine tooth (32 TPI) hacksaw or a dremel with a abrasive cut off disk.
Use a file to put a slight chamfer on the cut end, the run the nuts off to clean up the threads, or take them off and run it through a die to clean them up.

 

[sumpak]

love this group. alot of helpful gentlemen

i just need two screws to mount my red dot

 

[JTW_Jr]

That long to that short is easy, run three nuts onto it past the point where you want to cut it off, jam nut two of them to keep it from spinning.

Clamp the nuts in a vise, cut it off with a fine tooth (32 TPI) hacksaw or a dremel with a abrasive cut off disk.
Use a file to put a slight chamfer on the cut end, the run the nuts off to clean up the threads, or take them off and run it through a die to clean them up.

I have a piece of steel tapped, run the screw in with a jam nut, cut off using bandsaw, clean up the end on my 2x72 Bader.