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I've got a Lansky Knife Sharpener which I'd like to modify but I'll need to buy a new die to thread some rod - but what size die?!
The thumb screw (which holds the guide rod) is 3/16 diameter and has 24 threads to the inch. So is it 3/16" UNC or 10-24 (whatever that means!)

Here's the thumb screw on the end of the stone:

http://www.protoolreviews.com/revie...rd-deluxe-knife-sharpening-system/lansky4.jpg

Thanks in advance.

Vic.
 
10*0.013 + 0.060 = 0.190 (very close to 3/16")

It's almost certainly a common 10-24
 
Thanks guys, so is 10-24 and 3/16 UNC the same thing?

Would you believe it's just as cheap to buy a HSS die on eBay and get it shipped from the USA as it is to get a CS one over here!

Vic.
 
Omnimill said:
Thanks guys, so is 10-24 and 3/16 UNC the same thing?
Click to expand...

Below 1/4", the UNC standards are the numbered series*...

http://www.efunda.com/designstandards/screws/screwunc.cfm

so, no, 10-24 and 3/16-24 aren't the same thing, though very close. I won't say categorically that 3/16-24 doesn't exist - there's always some jerk making proprietary threads - but in seventy years of fiddling about I've never encountered it.

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* As if the idiot Imperial fractions weren't bad enough, they had to muck things up with numbered threads using a system that directly conveys no dimensional information whatsoever. (Don't ask me what I really think of America's treasured collection of stupid measures.)
 
Your right Marv....

How about #28-16 NS obsolete as of 1950.....which is parked right in between 3/8 and 7/16 in size. ::)

there's hundreds of them!

Dave
 
Or is it a common ol' 3/16 Whit?
 
might be worth trying one tho'
 
I looked for a 3/16 Whitworth bolt last night and couldn't find one :(

Vic.
 
There has been a 3/16-24 tap moving around my tool box for decades unused. So I just went to where it should be and of course could not find it. Opened up my 1952 MHB and the only 3/16 listed was Whitworth, also fine thread of 3/16-32 along with the somewhat less common 7/32-28.
 
I'd still like to see you try a 3/16W - just as a matter of interest.
 
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