[TR] Pain job for 1972 TR6

[Jack McGahey]

The paragraph about metal parts being dipped and hung to dry reminded me of this piece about the spaghetti harvest:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=2&ved=2ahUKEwjY_qXh94vlAhVQcq0KHZxOBQ0QwqsBMAF6BAgOEAg&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DMEqp0x6ajGE&usg=AOvVaw3RucjOP3X_FtlaVB_ZB4V3
Perhaps the WW2 vet who told the story had a similar sense of humor.

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> On Oct 7, 2019, at 4:47 PM, John Macartney <John.Macartney at ukpips.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> In the 23 odd years I’ve been on this list, I don’t think I’ve laughed so much at a ww2 veterans observation of manufacturing life in this country during the conflict. Get this. Manufacturing of anything to do with the prosecution of the war in the U.K. was strictly off limits to anyone not directly involved in it. As for farms being involved, all the farms were going flat out doing everything possible to feed the population. Hitlers U Boats nearly starved us out and farms had far more important things to do that paint hardware and let it dry. This poppycock is as way out of the window as myths I’ve seen in the past on this list that Triumphs were built using whatever happened to be available, or E type Jaguars were built in a factory with rusty metal walls as cladding and earth floors!!
> 
> Jonmac
> 
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>> On 7 Oct 2019, at 22:15, Gene M <mclans at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Chad,
>> 
>> Diameter of the bolt is the same on the entire shaft instead of tapered like a modern sheet metal screw, and threads were squared off and smooth instead of the angled with a machine bite like a sheet metal screw.  
>> 
>> I need to clean out my garage in the next year or two and I'll post a pic when I locate these bolts.  I never found a source for these, including The Roadster Factory or Moss Motors.  Only this WW II veteran identified it--didn't know where to get it or what it was called.  
>> 
>> Have you seen an original  TR6 body panel that had primer next to bare metal?  I don't know if it is true what the hardware store WW II employee told me about the Brits dipping every metal part in lacquer paint.  This vet told me during WW II they had these big vats in the barns in rural England and all the metal fabricated parts for everything were dipped and air dried to prevent rust.  These parts would hang there and be available for the war effort.  He figured maybe after WW II ended, these vats with the lacquer paint and the malleable metal parts that could be re-pressed into what my car was made from.  
>> 
>> All good since the result was the TR6.  
>> 
>> Gene M.
>> 70 TR6
>> Sacramento, CA
>> From: Chad <triumph74tr6 at yahoo.com>
>> Sent: Monday, October 7, 2019 1:02 PM
>> To: triumphs at autox.team.net <triumphs at autox.team.net>; Gene M <mclans at sbcglobal.net>
>> Subject: Re: [TR] Pain job for 1972 TR6
>>  
>> I have never encountered what I would consider a "square" threaded bolt in almost 30 years of working on TR6's.  Maybe that is a descriptor I am unaware of.
>> 
>> Chad in Tulsa.
>> 
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