Gerber Crucial - Screw sizes?

[lowtech]

Hello!

does anybody know what thread / pithc the screws are that held my Crucial together?
I took it apart and had o drill out one screw.

They are not metric and i have no gauge to testr size and thread pitch for Imperial/inch threads.

Thanks!

[lowtech]

Ok, the ortographics in my first post are somewhat strange, but i guess you know what i wanted to know.
Did nobody take it´s Crucial apart?

Mine looked like this before.


I hope to have some "shop time" tonight so i can snap some pics of the parts.

[Gareth]

   I can't actually think I've seen any pictures for a Crucial in bits.  Hopefully someone can help.

[lowtech]

So I´ll make sure i do some so there are some for future reference.

Hopefully I´ll get it back together...

I plan on bead blating the scales and either keep them raw aluminium to gain some patina from getting used or bake on some crinkle finish black.

I´ll try to find scres locally, but maybe I´ll have to cry out for help here...

[lowtech]

Ok, nobody so far, so I´ll post this for starters:



A Crucial apart, hopefully still all parts except for one screw i had to drill out.
Now I need to find one to replace it
Any hints on how to identify an Imperial thread? I´ve got calipers and a thread pitch gauge, although the thread is very small, so the gauge might not be of much help...

[lowtech]

Just to add to this:

I bought a screw gauge and the used screws seem to be #5, NF with 44TPI - does this sound plausible to you?

and where can i find black screws with that thread in a similar design to the used ones or ss ones to replace them all?

Knifekits for example shows only size 4 scrws - apart from wanting about 30,- $ for shipment...

I did (as you might have guessed from teh pic) bead blasted the scales adn I am now unsure if I want to leave them raw and just polish them or if i want to use some wrinkle finish balck.

Opinions on this?

[RICHJ]

Could you do a crinkle camo finish ?
Do you have any good fastener/engineering suppliers near you that you could take the screw to ?

[lowtech]

Well, most hardware stores / industrial supply stores are well equipped as long as i stay metric, but do only bigger orders of imperial/inch sizes.

I don´t know if I could do a Camo finish, probably would work, but I´m not much into that camo/tactical/hunting look.

[RICHJ]

Hopefully one of the US members will pick up on your screw issue later today. I'm sure someone will have exactly what you need 

If you really want to go to town on the colour you could try home anodising the aluminium parts. A nice dark purple would set off the blades nicely.