Calling All Experts Regarding Screw Thread and Size -- Thanks!

[foakes]

Calling all experts--

What is the best type of gauge to get to determine screw size and thread pitch?

For our use on fishing reels.

Thanks,

Fred

[Islandgypsy]

These have always worked well in the past. Measures down to 44 threads per inch. Available at most Ace Hardware stores. Metric version also.

[Tiddlerbasher]

Fred - not wishing to state the obvious buuut - a gauge measuring Imperial and Metric would seem to fit the bill - mine came with a thread cutting kit (some years ago ) I also use known threads from from screws etc that I posess - mainly metric. I just lay one screw against the other and hold up to a light, if the threads 'interlock' they are the same. Metric is easy - calipers to measure diameterc(3,4,5mm etc.), thread gauge for pitch (.5, .7, 1mm etc). Imperial has a few more complications BSf, UNF, UNC, Whitworth etc. Metric is so much simpler - even though I was born into an Imperial world

[Reel 224]

Ive always used a screw checker from Brownells, but it doesn't have metric on it. The thread gauge above is very good also.

[foakes]

Thank You, Gentlemen --

I will check those out.

Best,

Fred

[LTM]

Im not an expert Fred. However I did speak with Lee about this a couple of years ago and he referred me here: http://www.mcmaster.com/#thread-gauges/=xl0vl8

Hope this helps,

Leo

[Reel 224]

Im not an expert Fred. However I did speak with Lee about this a couple of years ago and he referred me here: http://www.mcmaster.com/#thread-gauges/=xl0vl8

Hope this helps,

Leo

Fourth row down, third from the left it the one that I have used for many years. Depends on personal preference between that and the other gauge that was posted above both are great tools....really they are not that expensive so you could buy both.