Working With Small Stuff -- 2-56 Screws

My son found this nifty old Radio Shack handheld CB transceiver.

The only problem with it is that the front cover is loose; the unit must have been dropped once -- its front cover fastenings are broken.

To make a long story short, I drilled and tapped the blind ends of the brass attachment posts so they'd take 2-56 x 5/32" screws, like so.

A couple of No. 44 holes through the front cover followed.

And here we are with a very neat repair to the loose front cover -- a pair of 2-56 hex socket head screws are now holding it in place.

Working with tiny threaded fasteners is beguiling. So far, 2-56 is the smallest size that I'm equipped for dealing with. I've ordered up some small sizes of metric taps and screws that I expect to find use for in model building. We'll see how that goes.

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Update -- THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 2019

My set of ten tiny threading taps arrived from Amazon. Here they are all queued up.

Following is a list of the sizes:

• M1.0
• M1.2
• M1.4
• M1.6
• M1.7
• M1.8
• M2.0
• M2.5
• M3.0
• M3.5

Hmmm. I didn't know of the existence of about half of those sizes.

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