Date   : Sun, 10 Sep 2006 15:00:20 +0100
From   : "Colin" <cwhill@...>
Subject: Re: BBC Micro screws

If you are talking about the ones I think you are, they are self-tapping but
have a sort of "built in" washer and I haven't seen them except on
electrical stuff.
I'm sure there must be a special name for this type of screw but, if there
is, I don't know it unless it's "case screw" as used in PC's for the same
purpose but they are much shorter. You may have to adapt and use a standard
self tapping screw with a washer..
They are 3/4 of an inch long (about 1.5cm), by the way although I don't know
how wide and I can't find my micrometer at the moment to check.
Colin Hill

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew Benham" <adsb@...>
To: "Littlefield Aaron" <CALITTLEFIEL@...>
Cc: <bbc-micro@...>
Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2006 11:47 AM
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] BBC Micro screws


> Littlefield Aaron wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Does anybody have any good ideas as to where I could obtain some
replacement
> > BBC micro screws? I'm after the large type that holds the lid to the
bottom
> > of the case (usually 4 of them - two at the front underneath and two at
the
> > back). I tried B&Q this weekend but they don't have anything like it.
> >
> > Does anybody know of a good on-line source?
>
> Usual place for all nuts and bolts:
>
> http://www.namrick.co.uk/
>
> The case screws are, as I recall, self tapping screws.  Self-tappers
> are available in thread-cutting and thread-forming types, but I don't
> have a BBC case screw readily to hand (real BBC owners don't have the
> cases screwed on!).
>
> -- 
> Andrew Benham         adsb@...
> Southgate, London N14, United Kingdom
>
> The gates in my computer are AND OR and NOT, not "Bill"
>
>
>