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Re: set screw identification
From the FTC forum (2015 thread):
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I just received an email from Pitsco that [one of] their vendor(s) mistakenly shipped collars with metric set screws that would require a 2 mm Allen wrench / "hex key", which is 5.04/64th's of an inch.
Per http://www.tetrixrobotics.com/gettin...ools_guide.pdf, the correctly-manufactured collars require the 1/16" (or 4/64") hex key.
Since the hex socket is 0.016" bigger than the 1/16" hex key, this explains why we are rounding the sockets.
It had also confused me why I had found that they were 4 mm set screws, but another Mentor found that a #6 screw fit perfectly - just luck of the draw.
We will segregate (discard) the metric collars. Pitsco has said they would replace the ones with the wrong set screws.
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Most hardware stores have thread gages if you have a loose set scew to test.
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