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Find optimal hole size for thread forming screws in plastic #323

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melanielaporte opened this issue Sep 23, 2024 · 1 comment
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Find optimal hole size for thread forming screws in plastic #323

melanielaporte opened this issue Sep 23, 2024 · 1 comment
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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
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Our enclosure needs to be held together with screws and we do not know enough to choose the size of the screw holes.
The PCB is mounted to the enclosure with screws and we do not know enough to choose the size/screws.

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Prefer a table of screw sizes of various metric screws and plastic types.

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Machine screw threaded metal inserts. Not ideal.

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We found some interesting advice: https://www.google.com/search?q=hole+size+for+3mm+thread+forming+screws

@melanielaporte melanielaporte changed the title Find optimol hole size for thread forming screws in plastic Find optimal hole size for thread forming screws in plastic Sep 23, 2024
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