Where to get odd size nuts

[Eusebius]

I have some Alps potentiometers and rotary switches without nuts, and I'm trying to get some to fit. I think it's something like the following:

M8 with what looks like .75 pitch

Is this common stock or do I need a specialist, if so who?

andy

[Colin Wilson]

I'd be tempted to take a trip to the nearest Maplins to see what they'd recommend :-}

[tony sayer]

In article , Eusebius scribeth thus

If you can't find any you could get a lump of M8 studding and locknut a couple of nuts on the end and grind them, or rather the end one down to the right thickness....

[SimonJ]

> i.e. M8 with what looks like .75 pitch

good?

[Andy Evans]

This is 1.25 pitch. I think my problem is that this is the usual pitch for M8, but the Alps is 0.75. I guess that being a thin nut they wanted more purchase.

So basically still searching (and waiting for a reply from Alps)

Andy

[R]

> i.e. M8 with what looks like .75 pitch

Check out Modern Screws of Bexley Kent.

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Eusebius saying something like:

I'd be surprised if RS or CPC/Farnell don't have securing nuts for pots and switches. NR Bardwell is another that springs to mind. Used to be ten a penny at any component stockist.

[PeterC]

Is it ISOmetric extra-fine? I dimly recall having something like M10 at 1mm pitch or thereabouts; fortunately we had sets of taps and dies for EF threads.

[gunsmith]

If you want to roll your own

may do the taps.