Socket sizes

cookie1071 · Post by **cookie1071** » Mon Feb 14, 2011 2:14 pm

Quick one for you, what size sockets do i need for the flywheel and bottom pulley bolts on an S motor??

Tks in advance

, Niall.

Post by **nick rogers** » Mon Feb 14, 2011 3:06 pm

Flywheel is 1 inch and 1/2, and the pulley bolt is 1 inch and 5/16.

austinisuseless · Post by **austinisuseless** » Mon Feb 14, 2011 6:22 pm

Not AF (american fine sockets), but 7/8ths inch whitworth fits a flywheel bolt, and fits tighter than AF I have found.

66S · Post by **66S** » Mon Feb 14, 2011 8:48 pm

austinisuseless wrote:Not AF (american fine sockets)

Ahhemmm, I think you mean "across flats" old boy.

Al

cookie1071 · Post by **cookie1071** » Mon Feb 14, 2011 10:08 pm

OK cheers gang

- Halfords had the 1 1/2" size for reasonable £ but not the 1 5/16" so i've got both on order from Metal Spinners.

One last query for you though - size of the socket required to do up the driveshaft nuts on S?

Tks.

Niall.

austinisuseless · Post by **austinisuseless** » Tue Feb 15, 2011 1:44 am

66S wrote:
austinisuseless wrote:Not AF (american fine sockets)

Ahhemmm, I think you mean "across flats" old boy.

Al

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austinisuseless · Post by **austinisuseless** » Tue Feb 15, 2011 1:58 am

66S, look and learn, toolmaking, mechanical engineering at its best, now looks lost in this country, but let us not go into political details........

"DELETED YOUTUBE LINK"

Post by **Tim** » Tue Feb 15, 2011 2:22 am

austinisuseless wrote:
66S wrote:
austinisuseless wrote:Not AF (american fine sockets)

Ahhemmm, I think you mean "across flats" old boy.

Al
American fine as in the unf thread, you effing tool.

Spot the practising amateur engineer. Twit head.

Do an aprenticeship, and then come back to talk to me, spanner head.

austinisuseless · Post by **austinisuseless** » Tue Feb 15, 2011 2:43 am

I think you liked my response, Tim.

How's Antartica these days, Tim?

mk1 · Post by **mk1** » Tue Feb 15, 2011 8:28 am

Be careful not to confuse the letters AF when used to mean 'across flats', with AF used (erroneously) to indicate 'American Fine' thread. This is actually 'National Fine' and should be called NF or UNF.

Taken from the following article;

http://www.gomog.com/allmorgan/whitworth.html

"American fine as in the unf thread, you effing tool.

Spot the practising amateur engineer. Twit head."

Be careful who you call an effing tool, it may come back & bite you in the arse!

I also note that there is a totally unrelated Youtube clip in one of the above posts and as per this posting;

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1724

Austinisuseless's membership has been cancelled!

mk1 · Post by **mk1** » Tue Feb 15, 2011 8:50 am

The driveshaft nuts on an S are originally also 1 5/16 but some new ones are 36mm with, needless to say, the actual thread remaining the same as before.

Post by **Tim** » Tue Feb 15, 2011 9:14 am

austinisuseless wrote:I think you liked my response, Tim.

No quite the opposite, I was so furious that I decided that I should wait until I had calmed down before responding. Fortunately Mark said what I had intended to say, and so much more conclusively.

Tim

66S · Post by **66S** » Tue Feb 15, 2011 7:36 pm

Oh my, oh my, I seem to have got somebody fired up and then fired. Didn't mean any trouble.

Al
(Automotive and Marine Diesel Engineer who served his apprenticeship in the '60's)

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