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Steve T.
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, December 06, 2005 - 08:45 am: | 
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For 1970's Olympus. I assume they are metric thread.
I know of a great hardware store that has just about every kind of fastener available, including metric, but somehow I doubt they go this small. |
Jon Goodman
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, December 06, 2005 - 09:12 am: |
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Hello, Steve.
You might try your hardware store. If they are well stocked, I would not be at all surprised if they had metric screws this small. I've found several usable screws at the store where I shop.
Here is another suggestion...go to yard or garage sales or thrift stores and buy old Japanese-made transistor radios, tape players, etc. Don't pay much for them...$1 each or so. Take them home and disassemble them completely to bits. You'll find you have lots of small screws in the same pitch and thread size that were used in Japanese cameras.
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rick oleson
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, December 06, 2005 - 12:22 pm: |
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I think Jon's hardware store is better than mine, I have trouble finding anything under about 3mm. Hobby shops around here have small sizes but they're US, not metric sizes.
If you don't have luck scarfing them out of old junk cameras and what not, they have a pretty decent selection at www.micro-tools.com.
The most common sizes are (in order of popularity): 1.7mm, 2.0mm and 1.4mm diameters. |
Dan Mitchell
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, December 06, 2005 - 01:08 pm: |
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I can find screws down to 1.6mm in hardware stores where I live, but the best and cheapest source really is junk cameras, radios, etc.
Micro-tools sells some screws in small sizes. Also http://www.smallparts.com/ carries a wide variety of small parts including screws down to 0.5mm dia. |
Steve T.
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, December 06, 2005 - 03:01 pm: |
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Wow! Thanks for the tips. I hadn't thought of old transistor radios, but I don't have any. I have several junk lenses, but those screws tend to be shorter than what I need, or bigger diameter. I'll check the hardware store next time I go by there, and some of those other places mentioned.
Trouble is, I don't know what size the screws are, just that they are tiny. I could match them for size and thread if I had some examples to look at, in person, like at the hardware store. |
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