Socket sizes
Posted: 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.
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Socket sizes
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Re: Socket sizes
Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 3:06 pm
Flywheel is 1 inch and 1/2, and the pulley bolt is 1 inch and 5/16.
Re: Socket sizes
Posted: 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.
Re: Socket sizes
Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2011 8:48 pm
austinisuseless wrote:Not AF (american fine sockets)
Ahhemmm, I think you mean "across flats" old boy.
Al
Re: Socket sizes
Posted: 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.
- 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.
Re: Socket sizes
Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 1:44 am
EDITED by MSF66S wrote:austinisuseless wrote:Not AF (american fine sockets)
Ahhemmm, I think you mean "across flats" old boy.
Al
Re: Socket sizes
Posted: 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........
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Re: Socket sizes
Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 2:22 am
austinisuseless wrote:American fine as in the unf thread, you effing tool.66S wrote:austinisuseless wrote:Not AF (american fine sockets)
Ahhemmm, I think you mean "across flats" old boy.
Al
Spot the practising amateur engineer. Twit head.
Do an aprenticeship, and then come back to talk to me, spanner head.
Re: Socket sizes
Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 2:43 am
I think you liked my response, Tim.
How's Antartica these days, Tim?
How's Antartica these days, Tim?
Re: Socket sizes
Posted: 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!
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!
Re: Socket sizes
Posted: 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.
Re: Socket sizes
Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 9:14 am
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.austinisuseless wrote:I think you liked my response, Tim.
Tim
Re: Socket sizes
Posted: 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)
Al
(Automotive and Marine Diesel Engineer who served his apprenticeship in the '60's)