New term learned - source of machine screws?

Most of mine are Pan Head rather than a true cheese head. If that will do and I have the length you want, I could pop a couple in the post to you?

Bob

Ebay....take your pick.

Ach - if I look directly at Amazon there are loads of them.

I usually use Google because Amazon searches are so imprecise.

Haven't found the cheese head ones yet, but a set with Allen Key heads looks O.K.

Cheers

Dave R

Kind of you - however I think that I have managed to search successfully and I have a reasonably large Amazon order on the chocks ready to fly.

Thanks

Dave R

Ebay may be the best source of smaller quantities. Only you can decide.

Cheese head in stainless seems unusual these days. Allen head might be a good alternative and looks very good.

I've managed to order a cheese head and an allen head option.

Allen would be my preference for ease of general tightening.

Cheers

Dave R

I cannot believe you have never heard of cheese head screws. Surely this is a common description for the normal square sided heads.

Brian

To be honest, I had heard of it but assumed it related to the quality of metal used. I.e. A synonym for a crap quality screw. ;-)

Tim

Brian Gaff wrote:

Almost always my first port of call for ironmongery.

If you are in, or near, Cambridge then Mackays will sell you machine screws by the one. (Incidentally, contrary to common opinion, it *is* possible to come up with a size of screw which Mackays don't stock; I have done so

- *once*!)

Used to be Martin & Newby in Ipswich. Yet another family firm to close down.

Killed by the Internet, I guess, because if you can find what you want on eBay it is cheaper to buy there than travel to a real shop.

Until, of course, you need a 1923 left back handed knurd furgler.

Ah, well.

Dave R

Surely this is a description known to those who have already encountered them in a buying capacity?

Dangerous to assume that just because you know it then it is an obvious fact universally acknowledged.

Now wondering if "cheese head" is because the head resembles a round of cheese.

Cheers

Dave R

Obviously some people here never had a Meccano set in their yoof when it was the real stuff produced by Hornby, the machine screws were cheese head and yes it is the shape of the head looking similar to a ful cheese.

Richard

Oh yes ... and the crappy screwdriver & spanner .......... but what fun building. Wonder if its still going.

It is...although they have gone down the route that Lego took...you buy 'sets' to make something specific, most of the time.

I'm part way through the Eiffel Tower :-)

Meccano had long down that route decades before with some items having specific parts that were intended only for that Item. Aeroplanes were popular,There was one of these knocking around at my grans house that I used to play with,

G.Harman

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Interstingly (oh yes it is), the original Hornby trains were also Meccano style, in that they were nut and bolt construction although the parts, much like the aeroplane and car constructor sets, were of use for little else.

However, after that initial rush of blood to the head, Meccano was not issued as kits for a specific purpose until many, many years later, with themed sets introduced in the 1990s.

I always felt that both Lego and Meccano lost something when specific kits were introduced, rather than boxes of parts with general instructions for all manner of models. Must be my age though, as Lego in particular seems to go from strength to strength.

Just as an aside, having been disposing of child's no longer used toys, I noticed those that held their value were Playmobil and Lego, with Brio et al a close third.

Yeah - that particular boat sailed for lego over 40 years ago :-)