Schrade Pin Sizes
Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2018 6:51 pm
There's still alot of surplus Schrade pin stock out there but the information associated with them is sketchy at best. I've purchased some of these recently and in an effort to help others avoid confusion about the sizes, materials etc. I put together a small spreadsheet to help with the identification of these pins.
For the pins that I purchased there were some with the standard round dome heads, some with flat chamfered heads (flat on top, tapered towards the pin, and one other type that I called flat head raised (think extra thick flat head). For materials, I had steel (sticks to a magnet), nickel steel (doesn't stick to a magnet) and brass (the color of brass but could be another metal I suppose). Additionally the ends of the pins are identified as either solid or hollow (self explanatory)
Measurements were all taken with a digital caliper and I've put the measurements in mm for the metric folks and inches for the other folks. Metric to American conversions were all done with the caliper's functionality.
You may see examples where the metric to american conversion isn't always the same (.07 inches for example being equal to a few different mm sizes). The numbers in the spreadsheet are exactly as the caliper displayed them. I suppose its possible that the caliper is a bit more sensitive in the MM mode than in the inch mode but since we're only talking about a few hundredths of an inch, I don't believe it to be an issue.
I'll add new entries to this sheet as I add additional pin stock.
If you have some spec's that you'd like included, just shoot me an message or e-mail with the details and I'll update the spreadsheet.
I hope this helps!
Thanks.
Jeff (I was going to just attach the spreadsheet but the forum only accepts images. Click on the image to view full sized)
For the pins that I purchased there were some with the standard round dome heads, some with flat chamfered heads (flat on top, tapered towards the pin, and one other type that I called flat head raised (think extra thick flat head). For materials, I had steel (sticks to a magnet), nickel steel (doesn't stick to a magnet) and brass (the color of brass but could be another metal I suppose). Additionally the ends of the pins are identified as either solid or hollow (self explanatory)
Measurements were all taken with a digital caliper and I've put the measurements in mm for the metric folks and inches for the other folks. Metric to American conversions were all done with the caliper's functionality.
You may see examples where the metric to american conversion isn't always the same (.07 inches for example being equal to a few different mm sizes). The numbers in the spreadsheet are exactly as the caliper displayed them. I suppose its possible that the caliper is a bit more sensitive in the MM mode than in the inch mode but since we're only talking about a few hundredths of an inch, I don't believe it to be an issue.
I'll add new entries to this sheet as I add additional pin stock.
If you have some spec's that you'd like included, just shoot me an message or e-mail with the details and I'll update the spreadsheet.
I hope this helps!
Thanks.
Jeff (I was going to just attach the spreadsheet but the forum only accepts images. Click on the image to view full sized)