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Re: [Shop-talk] Metric Hardware

To: "Doug Braun" <doug@dougbraun.com>
Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] Metric Hardware
From: "David Scheidt" <dmscheidt@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 23:26:46 -0400
On 7/5/07, Doug Braun <doug@dougbraun.com> wrote:
> I am reminded:
>
> A couple of summers ago I was with my family in
> Greece, visiting my wife's family's summer house, and
> I needed a couple of 1/4-20 screws for making a camera
> mounting.
>
> It took some hunting around to find them in the small
> town where we were staying.  I eventually found some
> at a shop that specialized in tractor parts, since
> there are a lot of John Deere tractors in Greece.
>

Should have gone to a brit car shop.  Tripod mount screws are
whitworth!  1/4 inch for most small cameras, 3/8 for biger ones.  Both
whit sizes are have the same thread pitch as unc threads(20 and 16,
respectively), and nuts interchange.

-- 
David Scheidt
dmscheidt@gmail.com
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