Pan head screw 5 x 30

[geosar]

I attempted to replace the points cover screws and the crank cover screws at my local hardware store. They appear to be around an 8 but the thread is different.

The parts list has the points cover screws as 5x30 and the dynamo cover as

Other hex heads are listed such as the condenser holding screws are 5x12 .

Are these metric? Are they machine size? What are they and how can I find some that do not look 46 years old.

I did not find a thread about threads.

Thank you very much

George
Arizona

[e3steve]

I attempted to replace the points cover screws and the crank cover screws at my local hardware store. They appear to be around an 8 but the thread is different.

The parts list has the points cover screws as 5x30 and the dynamo cover as

Other hex heads are listed such as the condenser holding screws are 5x12 .

Are these metric? Are they machine size? What are they and how can I find some that do not look 46 years old.

I did not find a thread about threads.

Thank you very much

George
Arizona

George, all screws on our bikes (with the exception of the M6 & M8, which are ISOmetric) are metric JIS (Japanese Industrial Standard. PM FAST FRED; he sometimes has them NOS.

[Hotshoe]

I just bought a set of JIS dyno and points cover stainless steel phillips head screws for my '67 CL77 from Ohio Cycle for $12.50, 5x16 (dyno) and 5x30 (points).
Not a big thing but I had to cut off about 4 threads for the dyno cover screw that mounts at the 2 o'clock postion because it was bottoming out.
They don't exactly match the look of plated phillips screws but I like the durability of stainess in those locations.

[geosar]

Thank you for the help.

On it.

George

[Snakeoil]

Yup, ran into this myself. Western Honda was out of them when I called. So I just cleaned mine up and zinc plated them in the basement and now I've got $12 in my pocket to burn on something else.

regards,
Rob

[geosar]

Maybe I can freshen up the phillips slots. That is my major concern. Good idea however.

Now that the rectifier is completed, it may be time to crank up the zinc plate station.

Thank you for the suggestion.

And so it goes.

George

[Hotshoe]

I just bought a set of JIS dyno and points cover stainless steel phillips head screws for my '67 CL77 from Ohio Cycle for $12.50, 5x16 (dyno) and 5x30 (points).


CORRECTION: I actually bought two sets of 5 screws for $12.50 ($1.25 for each screw).