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SCREWS BLANKS WITH TANGS AND LEADS UNCUT
Without Eyelet

Half-threaded, half-unthreaded, total length 80mm. Allows you to control the length and position of the threads as well as the length of pilot and tang. Eyelets not included

EYELETS

Violin Bronze

Cello Brass

Bass

Why can't I get an eyelet to fit this screw?

People often call and want to know where they can find an eyelet for such and such a screw. Or they want to know where they can buy a bunch of taps so they will always be prepared. The history of measurement standards really is a fascinating story, so I will do my best with the space and time available.

To start with, to have a standard thread you need to have a standard measure. In England King Henry did a good job in the 13th century using his body parts. These remained as standards until England went Metric in the 1960s. Although England was the exception, France also has inches and feet, along with other units, but no one could agree on whose foot to use, with every region and sometimes every village having it's own standards. This problem was made even worse in the late middle ages when the size of a man's foot was related to another, unrelated part of his anatomy, causing some Rulers to exaggerate and sometimes even outright lie about the size of their "foot", until, finally all Rulers claimed to be 12 inches-- a claim not supported by modern science-- So, During the French Revolution it was ordered to find another standard, a "natural one." They decided to take the distance from the North Pole to the Equator (as it passed through Paris, of course) as best as it could be measured in those days and then take one ten-millionth of that and call it the "Metre" The metric system was discarded in France in 1812, reinstated in 1840 with most of Europe adopting it by the late 1870s. This did not mean that trades people threw out their old measuring or thread-cutting tools at that time. It should be kept in mind that adopting a system of measurement is different from wide-spread acceptance and use. Meanwhile, back to the screw-thread.

In the mid-19th Century almost every factory and manufacturer had it's own design of screw thread and, consequently, fasteners were often made specially for the job at hand. This meant that compatibility and interchangeability between companies was just about non-existent. The first standardized threads were introduced in 1841 by Sir Whitworth and were based on the English Foot and inch system. In 1864 an American, totally agreeing with Sir Whitworth about the need for a standardized thread, introduced his own, again based on the inch-foot, the SAE or American Standard. By 1884 in Britain the Whitworth fell to the BA thread. It wasn't until 1947 that the ISO was created to standardize the Metric thread. In 1966 the BA was discarded in favor of the Metric standard. Oops, almost out of space, But I think you are starting to get the idea.