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A AN M E R I C A N A T I O N A SL T A N D A R D

Metric Series Socket

Set Screws

ASMEIANSI B18.3.6M-1986
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Setscrew, Hexagon,
Socket - Metric
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Date of Issuance: February 28, 1987

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FOREWORD

(This Foreword is not part of ASMElANSl B18.3.6M-1986.1

Americav. National Standards CommitteeB18 for the standardization of bolts,screws,

nuts, rivets, and similar fastenerswas organized in March 1922 as Sectional CommitteeB18
under the aegis of the American Engineering Standards Committee (later the American
Standards Association, then the United States of America Standards Institute and,as of
October 6, 1969, the American National Standards Institute) with the Society of Automo-
tive Engineers and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers as joint sponsors.
Subcommittee No. 9 was established in April 1929 to undertake the development and
oversee the maintenance of standardscovering socket head cap screws and set screws. In
line with a general realignment of the subcommittee structureon April 1,1966, Subcommit-
tee 9 was redesignated Subcommittee 3. Over the intervening years this activity has pro-
duced several versions of American National Standards covering inch series socket cap,
shoulder, and set screws bearing the B18.3 designation.
At theDecember 4, 1974 meeting of American National Standards Committee B18, Sub-
committee 3 was assigned the task of preparing standards for metric series socket screw
products parallelingthat containedin the latestANSI B 18.3 document. TheSubcommittee
was also instructed to continue coordinating that activity with the International Standards
Organization, I S 0 Technical Committee 2,and Working Group 3, and, tothe extentpossi-
ble, to keep the proposals for metric standards under development in conformance with
agreements reached therein.
Subsequent meetings of Subcommittee 3, held in February 1975 and January 1976, re-
sulted in general agreementon thefollowing basic principles to be considered in developing
the metric version of the standard.
(a) To assure consumers continuityof performance integrity consistentwith inch socket
screw products, the metric standardsshould maintain the sameq.uality levels as their inch
counterparts.
(b) T o facilitate and expedite the processing, acceptance, andadoption of the metric ver-
sions, proposals for the various product categories be should
prepared as separate and com-
plete product standards.
(c) To promote understanding and assimilation during the transitionto metric, the di-
mensional symbols, designations, terminology, and basic formats of themetric standards
should be kept similar to that used in the ANSI B18.3 document.
At the November 10,1976 meeting of Subcommittee it was
3,agreed that thesocket screw
industry document coveringmetric series hexagon socketset screws should be circulated for
subcommittee consideration as a proposed standard.was It noted that there were some di-
mensional differences between this document and the recently published IS0 standards,
namely, in the details of someof the points and the thread fit. TheI S 0 standards specify
tolerance class 5g6g, whereas the socket screw industry document requires4g6g, consistent
with past practices. Also,the physical and mechanical requirements containedin the refer-
enced documents in the I S 0 standard were somewhat less stringent. Subcommittee accept-
ance of the content ensued and the document, modified to more closely suit the ANSI
format, was approved by letter ballot to American National Standards Committee B18.
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