ISO 4027HeadlessHexagon socket

ISO 4027 M8 × 12 Headless

ISO 4027 M8 × 12 is a socket set screw, cone point with a 12 mm nominal length, on a M8 × 1 mm metric thread. ISO cone point counterpart. Cone angle follows the DIN convention: 120° for M6 and above, 90° for M5 and below.

Dimensioned drawing — ISO 4027 M8 × 12L 12⌀4⌀8
ISO 4027 M8 × 12 — HeadlessNominal dimensions in mm · Not to scale
Diameter8 mm
Length12 mm
Pitch1 mm
Socket size s4 mm
HeadHeadless
DriveHexagon socket

Dimensions

Standard
ISO 4027
Type
Socket set screw, cone point
Size
M8 × 12
Thread
M8 × 1
Length L
12 mm
Socket size s
4 mm
Drive
Hexagon socket
Head
Headless

Nominal values in millimetres as published in ISO 4027. Estimated weight 4.735 g per piece in steel (4.765 g in stainless), calculated from the nominal geometry — real parts vary with tolerance and head chamfers.

DesignationM8 × 1 fine
Pitch1 mm
Nominal Ø8 mm
Pitch Ø7.35 mm
Minor Ø ext6.77 mm
Tap drillØ 7 mm

Other lengthsISO 4027 M8

All M8 specifications

Interchangeability

ISO 4027 is catalogued with DIN 914 as its equivalent designation. Dimensions are compared field by field rather than assumed identical.

Choosing and fitting this size

ISO 4027 M8 × 12 is a headless in M8, 12 mm long under the head, on a 1 mm coarse pitch. Mating threads should be a matching class nut or a tapped hole of the same nominal size.

Set screws are rated by surface hardness rather than tensile class — the common stock grade is 45H, which is hard enough to bite into a hardened shaft. Stainless set screws are not through-hardened and will not bite the same way, so they are a poor substitute where the point has to grip.

For a tapped hole, M8 × 1 mm takes a 7 mm tap drill, and the external thread's minor diameter is 6.77 mm — that is the section carrying the load, not the nominal M8 figure. Thread engagement of at least one times the nominal diameter is what lets the bolt fail before the thread strips.