When you want a screw or bolt to pass through a design element it’s a good idea to use a clearance hole. While screws are normally smaller than the nominal size this doesn’t mean that you should use a 3mm hole for an M3 screw. Use one of the clearance hole sizes instead which allow for flexibility during assembly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
For example, if you’re using an M6 screw, make the hole it passes through 6.5mm in diameter – it’s a standard size drill that we will usually keep in stock!<\/p>\n\n\n\n When you want a screw or bolt to pass through a design element it’s a good idea to use a clearance hole. While screws are normally smaller than the nominal size this doesn’t mean that you should use a 3mm hole for an M3 screw. Use one of the clearance hole sizes instead which allow […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216],"tags":[227,230,229,228,226],"class_list":["post-604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","tag-bolt","tag-clearance-hole","tag-design","tag-fastener","tag-screw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":609,"href":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions\/609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makeinsalford.com\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Nominal Size<\/strong><\/td> Standard Drill Sizes<\/strong><\/td> Tight Fit<\/strong><\/td> Normal Fit<\/strong><\/td> Loose Fit<\/strong><\/td><\/tr> 3<\/td> 3.2 or 3.5<\/td> 3.2<\/td> 3.35<\/td> 3.6<\/td><\/tr> 3.5<\/td> 4 or 4.2<\/td> 3.7<\/td> 3.9<\/td> 4.2<\/td><\/tr> 4<\/td> 4.5<\/td> 4.3<\/td> 4.5<\/td> 4.8<\/td><\/tr> 4.5<\/td> 5<\/td> 4.8<\/td> 5<\/td> 5.3<\/td><\/tr> 5<\/td> 5.5<\/td> 5.3<\/td> 5.5<\/td> 5.8<\/td><\/tr> 6<\/td> 6.5, 7<\/td> 6.4<\/td> 6.5<\/td> 7<\/td><\/tr> 7<\/td> 7.5, 8<\/td> 7.4<\/td> 7.8<\/td> 8<\/td><\/tr> 8<\/td> 8.5, 9, or 10<\/td> 8.4<\/td> 9<\/td> 10<\/td><\/tr> 10<\/td> 10.5, 11, 12<\/td> 10.5<\/td> 11<\/td> 12<\/td><\/tr> 12<\/td> 13, 14, 15<\/td> 13<\/td> 14<\/td> 15<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"