Difference between 3/8-10 and 3/8-11

[Michael Webb]

Michael
Sent you a greenie for all the info you shared in this thread....:smile:
Really you do it all over azb ......l:thumbup:

Thank you Larry
It's my on going. We don't know what we think we know. But what if we did, or at least tried too.

 

[Kim Bye]

That's crazy to see all the different pins, so when someone says they have a 3/8-10 pin, do you ask which one right off the bat? I have to wonder, how that works, do most cuemakers have taps for the various sizes 3/8th pins?

Yes, you can imagine how difficult it is when a customer ask you to make shaft to his XYZ cue and can't part with the cue butt for the time needed to figure out pin length, minor, joint collar diameter etc...

 

[1pocketguru]

Screws are actually pretty complicated. They have major diameters, minor diameters, pitch circles, and different thread profiles. They also have various number of "starts" etc. And also different tolerances of fit as well. The list goes on and on. The screws you buy at the hardware store are either standardized metric or imperial. The long and short of it is that cuemakers don't follow standard ASME or Metric guidelines. There could be a thousand different ways to make a 3/8 - 10 thread profile. Cuemakers may or may not have a good reason why they chose one style of 3/8 -10 over another.

 

[1pocketguru]

No. Screw threads (and also gears) are calculated using the pitch circle. They DO NOT "locate" though. You would needs pins or some kind of way to create a datum for that. Preferably 3 points.

 

[Hits 'em Hard]

No. Screw threads (and also gears) are calculated using the pitch circle. They DO NOT "locate" though. You would needs pins or some kind of way to create a datum for that. Preferably 3 points.

A flat bottom screw uses the flat bottom as a locator for centering the shaft onto the butt. You have a lot to learn about pins for cues.

 

[Michael Webb]

Screws are actually pretty complicated. They have major diameters, minor diameters, pitch circles, and different thread profiles. They also have various number of "starts" etc. And also different tolerances of fit as well. The list goes on and on. The screws you buy at the hardware store are either standardized metric or imperial. The long and short of it is that cuemakers don't follow standard ASME or Metric guidelines. There could be a thousand different ways to make a 3/8 - 10 thread profile. Cuemakers may or may not have a good reason why they chose one style of 3/8 -10 over another.

Good post. Thank you.