M2 Socket Driver

Ralphmp

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I need a socket driver for some M2 nuts and bolts. There are a plethora of options on the interweb - just wondered if anyone has a recommendation or a favoured supplier of such tools?

Thanks.

Phil
 
So if it is M2 I assume you want a 4mm AF nut spinner. Google comes up with lots of alternatives, with many well known names.
 
The nuts are 2mm across as ar3 the bolt heads. As I’ve never needed anything this small before I was hoping for some suggestions to help me avoid buying something tatty.
 
2mm across the flats, that is small! No idea of a good manufacturer, but it's got to be a watch makers shop. Try Cousins
 
Beware, if the nuts are 2mm across, they are not M2. The M2 reference is the diameter of the thread of the bolt.
 
At a push it is possible to compact a piece of brass tube to make a box spanner, likely as not will be poor if the nuts are really tight but will work fine if not. I did at a show buy a set of Lazer cut ba spanner’s which have served me well, wish I could remember who from. Finally I have some Expo Box Spanners, they are good quality with a decent handle but we’re quite costly as I recall. The 2 smaller out of 5 are 14 and 16Ba appear to be in the realm you are talking about. Sadly the set of 5 had other sizes not in my most used ones.
 
Ralphmp said:
The nuts are 2mm across as ar3 the bolt heads. As I’ve never needed anything this small before I was hoping for some suggestions to help me avoid buying something tatty.
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I have just measured a 12 BA nut and it is 2.25mm (AF), which means your nuts and bolts are smaller than this, it may be 14 BA, but I cannot find any specifications on this size.
 
So im now really confused. I want the socket to help attach my newly acquired Bertram Heyn point levers to some points.

The info I have is that the nuts/bolts required are M2, so I ordered some M2 nuts and M2 washers off eBay and they fit onto the existing bolts perfectly.

Unfortunately, all I have to try and tighten the nuts are tweezers or pliers, hence my desire to get a suitable socket driver.

I’ll take a look at the site suggested by Gérard.

Thanks
 
Ralphmp said:
So im now really confused. I want the socket to help attach my newly acquired Bertram Heyn point levers to some points.

The info I have is that the nuts/bolts required are M2, so I ordered some M2 nuts and M2 washers off eBay and they fit onto the existing bolts perfectly.

Unfortunately, all I have to try and tighten the nuts are tweezers or pliers, hence my desire to get a suitable socket driver.

I’ll take a look at the site suggested by Gérard.

Thanks
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The M2 nomenclature, refers to the fastenings beings to the metric specifications, and the thread being nominally '2mm' in diameter..
The nuts, and hexagonal bolt-heads, will obviously be larger than this (in this case 4mm AF (Across Flats) so you require a 4mm AF spanner or nut-driver..

To save us having to remember which size spanner, fits which size nut, metric spanners are marked with the 'M' designation we use for the nominal thread-size.

PhilP.
 
PhilP said:
The M2 nomenclature, refers to the fastenings beings to the metric specifications, and the thread being nominally '2mm' in diameter..
The nuts, and hexagonal bolt-heads, will obviously be larger than this (in this case 4mm AF (Across Flats) so you require a 4mm AF spanner or nut-driver..

To save us having to remember which size spanner, fits which size nut, metric spanners are marked with the 'M' designation we use for the nominal thread-size.

PhilP.
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Thanks Phil - I now understand! Last time I had to worry about this was when I used to work on my own cars and it was a case of what nut size (amazing how many 10,11 and 13 mm nuts in a typical engine!)
 
PhilP said:
To save us having to remember which size spanner, fits which size nut, metric spanners are marked with the 'M' designation we use for the nominal thread-size.

PhilP.
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I must admit I have never seen the "M" size on a metric spanner, a lot of my spanners are old, from Italian and Japanese motorbike work in the 60s and 70s, but even some smaller ones I have just bought this year do not have the "M" size.
 
Yep, almost all of my tools are from similar origins (scooters and cars, not allowed a motorbike). I’d rashly assumed in today‘s modern, more standardised world finding the right tools and things like nuts and bolts would be a doddle but sadly not. I do miss the ironmongers where I used to live and where when you went in and tried to describe the thingummy you wanted they said “yes, we’ve got one of those”, went straight to one of hundreds of boxes and produced exactly the thing you were after.
 
JimmyB said:
I must admit I have never seen the "M" size on a metric spanner, a lot of my spanners are old, from Italian and Japanese motorbike work in the 60s and 70s, but even some smaller ones I have just bought this year do not have the "M" size.
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I think this is a case of 'dumbing-down'?
Easier for the Grunts, to know which spanner to use. :rolleyes:

My annoyance, is buying screws:
No more 1" No. 8 screws round here..

All 25mm x 3.5mm now! :banghead:

PhilP
 
But bizarrely even younger tradesmen still refer to sheets of “8 x 4” when pricing up jobs involving plywood, MDF, etc.
 
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