Today on Felthry Makes Polls For Things No One Cares About: Screw sizes!

@Felthry I voted for M6-1.00 because it seems like a reasonable size and also moving exactly 1 mm per rotation is probably useful sometimes

@packbat When you need to control distance, you generally use a lead screw or ball screw, not a conventional machine screw. Honestly, thread pitch affects pretty much nothing in our experience, other than how many times you have to turn the thing to screw it all the way in.

@Felthry makes sense! My engineering education was unfortunately lacking when it came to fasteners, so. :P

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@packbat They don't really teach this stuff, we've learned a lot more from actually doing things than we have from classes

@Felthry *nods*

Makes sense. Education tends to focus on general principles.

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