AMERICAN NATIONAL STANDARD American Gaging Practice for Metric Screw Threads ANSI B1.16 - 1972 SECRETARIAT SOCIETY OF AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERS, INC. THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS United Engineering Center 345 East 47th Street New York, N.Y. 10017AMENDMENT 4.33, Standard practice is to mark the nominal size, pitch and tolerance class in millimeters and the GO or NOT GO plain diameter or PD. as the case may be, in inches. Due to the method of rounding inch figures within the product tolerance zone as specified in par. 24, a sight di repancy may exist between the inch and metric figures which may be one half a ten thousandth ‘of an inch (00005) more than if standard methods of rounding to inch figures had been used. Be- cause standard rounding methods introduce discrepancies approaching this same amount, the total discrepancy in the inch conversion may approach a full ten thousandth of an inch (.0001) ina few cases. Although this has little functional importance on the produet thread tolerance, it could result in misinterpretations regarding gage sizes, which are toleranced in ten thousandths ofan inch, unles itis clearly understood that gages made Co the inch conversions per par. 2.4, even if marked to millimeter diametes, will still measure correctly to the inch conversion, as far asthe lst frac- tion of a ten thousandth of an inch is concerned. If the gage made with inch calibrated measuring equipment is marked withthe diameter orP.D. in millimeters, the gage manufacturer should under. line the millimeter dimension in order to indicate the standard inch measurements apply. An example of this would be: “M10 x 1.25 6H GO PD 9.188 mm", where the gage in this case has been made to an inch rounded figure of 3618 PD. If we convert 9.188 mm to a six place inch decimal its equal to 361732 inch. Normally we would zound this figure to 3617 inch, but accord. ing to Par. 24 rules it rounds 1o 3618 inch. The difference in this case between the inch figure 3618 to which the goge is made and measured, and the exact conversion of 9.188 mm ( 361732 in.) s 68 millionth ofan inch (.000068 inch). 'No part of this document may be reproduced in any form, in an electronic retrieval system or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Copyright ©1974 by THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS. Printed in US.A,FOREWORD American National Standards Committee BI for the standardization of sorew threads was organized in 1920, as seotional committee BI under the aegis of the American Engineering Standards Committee (ater the American Standards Association, then the United States of Amerie Standards Institute and, 28 of October 6, 1969, the American National Standards Institute, Inc.) with the Society of Automotive En sineers and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers as joint sponsors. As a result, great dea of ef fort was expended through the years toward development of several inch screw thread standards including the current inch gaging standard, ANSI B1.2, Gages and Gaging for Unified Screw Threads, Recognizing the increasing need of industries in the United States for documentation of American ‘gaging practice for metric screw threads, AN Standards Committee BI charged its thread gaging subcom- mittee 2 with the responsiblity for producing such «standard This publication designated ANSI BI.16 was developed by subcommitte 2 to serve asthe bass for dimensional conformance of metre screw threads. The gaging principles used are similar to those in ANSI 1.2 but provide a more critical check of the minimum-materialtimits. Gage tolerances ae specified within the extreme limits of the product thread size in this standard, whereas, IS0/R1502, General Purpose Metric Screw Thread Gaging, specifies the gage limits outside the product thread limits. Product threads a ceptable to ANSI B1.16 should always be acceptable to gages made to ISO/R1502, but a product at the extreme limits oF slightly outside of product tolerance, which may be acceptable to 1SO/R1502 gages, may not be acceptable to ANSI BI.16 gages. It should be noted that the USA did not approve the ISO/R1502 ‘because it specifies gage limits outside the product limits. ‘ANSI BI.16 was approved by American National Standards Committee B1 on October 21, 1971, for publication as an official ANSI Standard ‘The proposed Standard was submitted by Standards Committee BI to the Secretariat and the ‘American National Standards Institut. It was approved and formally designated as an American National Standard on April 28, 1972