Where do you guys find your bolts?

L.A.B. · Jan 8, 2020

dobba99 said:
From memory (on holiday so can't check/verify) there are at least seven different thread/thread forms on my Mk 3
Unf
Unc

Plus a few Unified (UN Special?, UN-20? etc.) 'fine' threads.

dobba99 said:
Whitworth
Bsf
Bsc (British standard cycle)
B.A.
Metric. (at least two other locations as well as the obvious spark plug)

Also BSP Parallel (fuel taps).
M.E. (Amal carb top cable adjusters).

dobba99 · Jan 8, 2020

L.A.B. said:
Plus a few Unified (UN Special?, UN-20? etc.) 'fine' threads.

Also BSP Parallel (fuel taps).
M.E. (Amal carb top cable adjusters).

Blast! How did I forget BSP.....
And as a side note the 55 degree thread form with rounded crests and roots, standardised by Joseph Whitworth, is superior to the 60 degree unf and metric thread form.

Craig · Jan 8, 2020

Bernhard said:
And you could strip an old Chevy V8 with just 2 spanners. . . . . .

And an old Jeep with a 9/16”

74ok · Jan 8, 2020

this thread is nuts lol

SteveA · Jan 8, 2020

Craig said:
And an old Jeep with a 9/16”

Or a Scott Flying Squirrel motor with a 1/4" whit spanner......and by removing 3 nuts with your spanner you could expose and renew the 1/4" roller big ends with replacement rollers bought from the local hardware shop.......

C'mon guys, we are a motorcycle forum

Craig · Jan 8, 2020

Sorry .... an ex-Seal I used to know mentiond the Jeep thing to me while we roared along on bottom of Bay of Funday in his Jeep .....

Bernhard · Jan 8, 2020

SteveA said:
Or a Scott Flying Squirrel motor with a 1/4" whit spanner......and by removing 3 nuts with your spanner you could expose and renew the 1/4" roller big ends with replacement rollers bought from the local hardware shop.......

C'mon guys, we are a motorcycle forum

Wot! Hair rollers?

Where do you guys find your bolts?

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