What size hex key turns the setscrew on a Morse Volume Knob?

[Funky Chicken]

The title is the question. My new Morse Volume control is sticky, I think due to the knob being too low on the shaft. I've gone thru my collection of wrenches and don't have the right one.
Bueller? Tommyindelaware? Anyone???

 

[beej]

No idea! I have a ton of 'em laying around and one always fits. I'd call EBMM customer service on Monday- they can probably fill you in.

 

[tommyindelaware]

The title is the question. My new Morse Volume control is sticky, I think due to the knob being too low on the shaft. I've gone thru my collection of wrenches and don't have the right one.
Bueller? Tommyindelaware? Anyone???

2mm

sears sells singles......

 

[fogman]

OK!
For now on everybody direct all Morse question to Tommy instead of posting a general thread.
Tommy knows more about Morse and the Morse guitar than Steve does!!!!

 

[Funky Chicken]

Thanks Tommy-I went to Sears Sat. AM and bought a few, intending to return the ones that didn't work-The 5/64 did the trick.
I had houseguests all weekend-tonight I'll take a few pics and set her up a bit.

 

[tommyindelaware]

Thanks Tommy-I went to Sears Sat. AM and bought a few, intending to return the ones that didn't work-The 5/64 did the trick.
I had houseguests all weekend-tonight I'll take a few pics and set her up a bit.

yea it's close....but don't tighten too much.......the loose fit will round off the wrench....or worse...strip the hex nut in the knob.....
it works ok if every thing is fresh & clean......but later on down the road when time & sweat introduces grit and rust to the hex nut......it kinda siezes up & takes a lot of tork to loosen. that's when you need a tight fit so it don't strip metal.
2mm is real tight fit.

 

[peat]

i am amazed to see americans working with millimetres!!
i serisouly have never seen this before
im guessing cos allen keys (you guys call them hex keys)
only are measured with the metric system?

 

[SteveB]

i am amazed to see americans working with millimetres!!
i serisouly have never seen this before
im guessing cos allen keys (you guys call them hex keys)
only are measured with the metric system?

Peat,

Allan keys can be found in metric and good old Imperial sizes. I have a whole set at home, and none of them are metric!

But even if we *did* go metric, we probably wouldn't go so far as to use 'metre'... more likely 'meter'.

Next you'll be wanting us to say "shhhedule".

 

[tommyindelaware]

i am amazed to see americans working with millimetres!!
i serisouly have never seen this before
im guessing cos allen keys (you guys call them hex keys)
only are measured with the metric system?

typically.......metric indicates it was manufactured abroad by a supplier. most stuff made in usa isn't metric.

 

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no one i knows says shhhedule
im guessing you mean schedule
which i would pronounce skedule