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Section 10 Useful Information

HOW TO USE THE THREAD IDENTIFICATION CHART - Part 1


(Chart is on pages 1012 and 1013) The task of establishing origin, designation and size of an unknown thread ca be complicated experience, even if you have all the necessary tools at hand. To make it easier, we have prepared a Thread Identification Chart (T.I.C.) where the three most common threads: American, British and Metric are listed. Just follow these three basic steps: 1. Measure Major Diameter of your thread. 2. Count number of threads per one inch length. 3. Locate your finding in our T.I.C.

Before going further in this detailed instruction here is a general introduction to Metric and British thread designations. For comparison, the American Standard is included.

AMERICAN: 1/2-20 UNF 1/2 = Nominal Diameter 20 = Number of Threads Per Inch UNF = Thread Designation

METRIC: M 12 x 1.5 M = Thread Designation 12 = Nominal Diameter 1.5 = Pitch(For Coarse Series, Pitch may be omitted)

BRITISH: 1/2 BSF 1/2 = Nominal Diameter BSF = Thread Designation

Designation examples of the various thread series:


ORIGIN AMERICAN METRIC BRITISH COARSE THREAD 1/4-20 UNC M6 1/4 BSW FINE THREAD 1/4-28 UNF M 6 x 0.75 1/4 BSF EXTRA FINE THREAD 1/4-32 UNEF M 6 x 0.5 None MINIATURE THREAD 1.40 UNM M 1.4 12 BA PIPE-TAPERED 1/4-18NPT M 12 x 1.5 Taper 1/4 BSPT

From the above table several designation differences are apparent: 1. Metric designation uses pitch instead of number of threads per inch. Pitch is the distance from any one point on a thread to corresponding point on the next thread, measured parallel to the axis. 2. Metric coarse thread does not indicate pitch. The absence of pitch means coarse thread series. 3. Nominal diameter of Metric pipe threads (straight and tapered) corresponds to the actual measurement of the thread major diameter. This is contrary to American and British designations where nominal diameter of the pipe thread indicates approximate inside diameter of the tube. In the T.I.C., threads are listed in order in increasing size of the major diameter. Due to this, American and British pipe threads are in the chart among larger size thread diameters. 4. A point of interest is the most European countries still use the inch measuring system in connection with pipe threads. It is actually British BSP and BSPT, but the local designation may be different. 5. In the British system there is no need to indicate the number of threads per inch. All British thread series have only one number of threads per inch allocated to its diameter and series. 6. American Miniature thread (UNM) is interchangeable with corresponding sizes of ISO Metric Standardization.

For a chosen thread size, we follow as our example a metric thread nominal diameter 6mm with 25 1/2 Threads per inch, which is approx. 1 mm pitch. Correct designation is M 6. This thread is close to the following threads: M 6 x 0.5, M 6 x 0.75, 1/4-20 UNC, 1/4-28 UNF,1/4-32 UNEF, 7/32 BSF, 0 BS, 1/4 BSW and 1/4 BSF.

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