Strictly speaking I suppose this isn't machining per se, but I'm sure there have to be people here who can answer my question.
I have a piece of gear made in the U.S. probably in the 1950s, which has several threaded posts for electrical connections. There's a corresponding nut on one of the posts, but the remaining posts lost theirs.
I took the remaining nut to the hardware store and tried it on their test threads. It seemed to be a good fit for 8-32, so I bought a packet of those and brought them home. However, when I tried to put one of the new nuts on the device's posts, they wouldn't fit.
So, is there a thread size slightly larger than 8-32 that's a good candidate to be the one I need? Close enough to 8-32 that I might have thought it was a fit? I seriously doubt this is metric, due to the vintage.
I have a piece of gear made in the U.S. probably in the 1950s, which has several threaded posts for electrical connections. There's a corresponding nut on one of the posts, but the remaining posts lost theirs.
I took the remaining nut to the hardware store and tried it on their test threads. It seemed to be a good fit for 8-32, so I bought a packet of those and brought them home. However, when I tried to put one of the new nuts on the device's posts, they wouldn't fit.
So, is there a thread size slightly larger than 8-32 that's a good candidate to be the one I need? Close enough to 8-32 that I might have thought it was a fit? I seriously doubt this is metric, due to the vintage.