ASME B18.2.2 3/8-16 Hexagon
ASME B18.2.2 3/8-16 is a hex nut, on a 3/8-16 UNC thread at 16 tpi. The inch-series finished hex nut in UNC. Height and width across flats are held to inch dimensions, so it will not match a metric wrench even where the thread diameter is close.
Dimensions
- Standard
- ASME B18.2.2
- Type
- Hex nut
- Size
- 3/8-16
- Thread
- 3/8-16 (16 tpi)
- Socket size s
- 0.5625 in
- Head diameter dk
- 0.65 in
- Height m
- 0.3281 in
- Head
- Hexagon
Nominal values in inches as published in ASME B18.2.2. Estimated weight 4.012 g per piece in steel (4.038 g in stainless), calculated from the nominal geometry — real parts vary with tolerance and head chamfers.
Thread data
Full 3/8-16 thread pageOther lengthsASME B18.2.2 3/8-16
All 3/8-16 specificationsChoosing and fitting this size
ASME B18.2.2 3/8-16 is a 3/8-16 nut, on a 16 tpi UNC thread. Mating threads should be a matching class nut in the same property class.
Inch fasteners are graded under SAE J429, not ISO 898-1. Grade 2 is unmarked low carbon, Grade 5 carries three radial lines on the head and Grade 8 carries six. Grade 8 reaches roughly 1034 MPa tensile — close to metric class 10.9 — but the grades and thread forms are separate systems and the two should not be mixed in one joint. Never put a Grade 5 nut on a Grade 8 bolt: the thread strips first and the failure moves into the nut.
For a tapped hole, 3/8-16 takes a 0.3126 in tap drill, and the external thread's minor diameter is 0.2984 in — that is the section carrying the load, not the nominal 3/8-16 figure. Inch tap drills come from the thread tables rather than the metric rule of thumb (major diameter minus pitch), because TPI does not map onto that formula. Engagement of at least one times the nominal diameter is what lets the bolt fail before the thread strips.