[Healeys] Fasteners Again

[Alan Seigrist]

whitworth thread would make the most sense with soft metal

On Sun, 27 Dec 2020 at 9:57 PM, Bluehealey <bluehealey at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Team
> Mike is spot on with this. It has always been 5/16Whit since God was a
> boy. That is partly where the problems lie. It is toooooo easy to strip the
> alloy if a 5/16UNC is substituted. Then you are reduced to a nut and bolt
> solution using anything you have around.
> Happy New Year to you all.
>
> Alan - from my iPad
>
> On 27 Dec 2020, at 13:11, Michael Salter <michaelsalter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 
>
> Actually I'm pretty sure that that is a 5/16" Whitworth thread. .. not
> B.S.F.
> The same thread continued right throug production long after everything
> else saw changed to U.N.F.
>
> M
>
> On Sun., Dec. 27, 2020, 3:37 a.m. Alan Seigrist, <healey.nut at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> To clarify, originally there was a set screw (i.e., a fully threaded hex
>> bolt) there to be the final tighten for the bracket.....
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 4:25 PM Alan Seigrist <healey.nut at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Michael -
>>>
>>> If threaded, that hole should be either 5/16ths BSF or 3/8ths BSF.  I
>>> will have to check.
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>>
>>> Alan
>>>
>>> On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 8:27 AM Michael MacLean <rrengineer.mike at att.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Can someone tell me the fastener arrangement for this hole in the
>>>> generator front plate of my BN2?  From some pictures I see on the web there
>>>> is a nut on the backside of the generator plate.  Why then is the hole
>>>> threaded? (and it's not UNF)  What thread/size fastener and/or nut do I
>>>> need?
>>>> Mike MacLean
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