DIN 84Cheese headSlotted
DIN 84 M8 × 16 Cheese head
DIN 84 M8 × 16 is a cheese head screw with a 16 mm nominal length, on a M8 × 1 mm metric thread. A cylindrical head with a straight slot drive. Still common in instrument and electrical work, though pozidriv and hexalobular drives have largely replaced it in volume assembly.
Diameter8 mm
Length16 mm
Pitch1 mm
Head Ø dk13 mm
Head height k4.8 mm
HeadCheese head
DriveSlotted
Dimensions
- Standard
- DIN 84
- Type
- Cheese head screw
- Size
- M8 × 16
- Thread
- M8 × 1
- Length L
- 16 mm
- Head diameter dk
- 13 mm
- Head height k
- 4.8 mm
- Drive
- Slotted
- Head
- Cheese head
Nominal values in millimetres as published in DIN 84. Estimated weight 11.315 g per piece in steel (11.387 g in stainless), calculated from the nominal geometry — real parts vary with tolerance and head chamfers.
Thread data
Full M8 thread pageDesignationM8 × 1 fine
Pitch1 mm
Major Ø8 mm
Pitch Ø7.35 mm
Minor Ø ext6.77 mm
Tap drillØ 7 mm
Other lengthsDIN 84 M8
All M8 specificationsInterchangeability
DIN 84 is catalogued with ISO 1207 as its equivalent designation. Dimensions are compared field by field rather than assumed identical.