[Healeys] Fasteners Again

WILLIAM B LAWRENCE ynotink at msn.com
Sun Dec 27 11:10:30 MST 2020


New tooling costs money, which was not in great supply at the time. And they probably saw the end of the old tech looming so they didn’t think it worthwhile. But at least it gives us fodder for these discussions...

Bill Lawrence
BN1 #554
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Subject: Re: [Healeys] Fasteners Again

Actually this was really a Lucas thing. They appear to have only changed away from BSW, BSF and BA in new product designs after the early '60's so items like starters, generators, switches etc continued to be produced with the old thread configurations well into the '70s and beyond.

M


On Sun., Dec. 27, 2020, 9:42 a.m. Bluehealey, <bluehealey at gmail.com<mailto:bluehealey at gmail.com>> wrote:
I had various Fords and Vauxhall’s (UK) during the late 60’s into early 70’s and it was still Whitworth until the end of Dynamo’s (Generators) and the arrival of Alternators.
Strange but true.

Alan - from my iPad

On 27 Dec 2020, at 14:26, Alan Seigrist <healey.nut at gmail.com<mailto:healey.nut at gmail.com>> wrote:


whitworth thread would make the most sense with soft metal

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