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1. Why standard? (score: 1): Author: "Wade Shanley" <Wadesh@msn.com>; Date: Fri, 8 Nov 96 04:03:31 UT; Here's a newbie question... If MGs are british cars, why are all the nuts bolts etc on these cars standard instead of metric? Were they just being conciderate to us Americans? Wade Shanley wadesh@msn; /html/mgs/1996-11/msg00414.html (7,326 bytes)
2. Re: Why standard? (score: 1): Author: dfdarby@juno.com (David F. Darby); Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 14:05:58 PST; nuts bolts etc on these cars standard instead of metric? Good Question, Wade: The British did come up with some interesting systems of measurement, but the one for which they will always be remembere; /html/mgs/1996-11/msg00421.html (7,971 bytes)
3. Re: Why standard? (score: 1): Author: Ross MacPherson <arm@unix.infoserve.net>; Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 13:23:05 -0800; Hi Wade and welcome to the fold! Prior to 1946 British industry used the Whitworth standard of threads and wrench sizes. This system is based on the Imperial measurement system but differs from the; /html/mgs/1996-11/msg00436.html (8,929 bytes)
4. Re: Why standard? (score: 1): Author: BBubeck@aol.com; Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 18:02:06 -0500; Wade, MGs and all British cars produced before around 1980? were SAE. England only Metricated recently. Bruce 1974 MGB; /html/mgs/1996-11/msg00440.html (8,138 bytes)
5. Re: Why standard? (score: 1): Author: gramf@digisys.net (Paul/Ian Graham); Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 18:43:43 -0700; Ross, So what exactly are you saying? Can I go down to my local NAPA and pick up some fine or coarse thread SAE bolts for use on the GT or do I have to continue to strip old B's for bolts or pay exto; /html/mgs/1996-11/msg00443.html (9,887 bytes)
6. RE: Why standard? (score: 1): Author: "Wade Shanley" <Wadesh@msn.com>; Date: Sat, 9 Nov 96 03:20:38 UT; Thanks for all the info to all who responded on this thread. I'm amazed at how much all of you know. In fact I'm a bit embarrassed. I should have known some of that history on the metric system. I ju; /html/mgs/1996-11/msg00453.html (10,007 bytes)
7. Re:Why standard? (score: 1): Author: Larry Hoy <73253.1136@CompuServe.COM>; Date: 08 Nov 96 10:31:04 EST; If I remember correctly at one time we *were* England. :-) Sooooo I think our "American" System is really the English system. I believe the metric system in England represents a change in their syst; /html/mgs/1996-11/msg00463.html (7,898 bytes)
8. Re: Why standard? (score: 1): Author: SCHLINING.M.W-@postal.essd.northgrum.com (SCHLINING.M.W-); Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 08:19:21 -0500; You can blame World War II for this one. The US supplied a lot of hardware and the UK standardized on it. Otherwise, I guess they would still be using Whitworth standards. Marty Schlining 57 MGA Coup; /html/mgs/1996-11/msg00468.html (8,061 bytes)
9. Re: Why standard? (score: 1): Author: TATERRY@aol.com; Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 10:24:26 -0500; << Were they just being conciderate to us Americans? >> Hi Wade and welcome to the list.....think WW2, all that American equipment and the local nuts and bolts didn't fit, and they weren't metric eit; /html/mgs/1996-11/msg00470.html (8,309 bytes)
10. RE: Why standard? (score: 1): Author: Nick Pitt <nick.pitt@bbc.co.uk>; Date: Fri, 08 Nov 96 14:47:00 PST; Surely as in many things you Americans are still doing things the way we taught you, only we do them different now. Or something like that :-) Here's a newbie question... If MGs are british cars, why; /html/mgs/1996-11/msg00483.html (8,088 bytes)
11. RE: Why standard? (score: 1): Author: Nick Pitt <nick.pitt@bbc.co.uk> (by way of The Richards <smrm@coastalnet.com>); Date: Sat, 09 Nov 1996 08:26:16 -0500; So, if the British are being 'Europeanized', and we stuborn Americans resist -- does this make us more British than the British? Michael, New Bern, NC Per: Surely as in many things you Americans are; /html/mgs/1996-11/msg00485.html (8,468 bytes)
12. Re: Why standard? (score: 1): Author: BBubeck@aol.com; Date: Sat, 9 Nov 1996 10:06:38 -0500; Paul, You can use grade 5 fine threaded Bolts/nuts in standard SAE sizes. I get them from my local hardware store. Bruce 74 MGB; /html/mgs/1996-11/msg00490.html (8,215 bytes)
13. Re: Why standard? (score: 1): Author: Ross MacPherson <arm@unix.infoserve.net>; Date: Sat, 9 Nov 1996 07:48:44 -0800; Hi Paul, Actually it's not quite as simple as it seems. (Is it ever?) ALMOST all the hardware on an MGB is UNF/UNC which is (are?) the same as SAE. The only exceptions I know of being assorted tiny b; /html/mgs/1996-11/msg00492.html (9,566 bytes)
14. Re: Why standard? (score: 1): Author: TATERRY@aol.com; Date: Sat, 9 Nov 1996 23:21:17 -0500; << hardware on an MGB is UNF/UNC which is (are?) the same as SAE. The only exceptions I know of being assorted tiny bits and pieces in instruments and SU carbs. >> Ross almost has it right. UNF is al; /html/mgs/1996-11/msg00514.html (8,930 bytes)
15. Re: Why standard? (score: 1): Author: Paul Hunt <on76@dial.pipex.com>; Date: Sun, 10 Nov 96 19:21:08 GMT; Haven't seen any mention of AF (Across Flats? American Forces?), a set of which I inherited from my Dad. They are still sold alongside Metric, and fit my B's a treat. PaulH 73 Roadster (HD&H) 75 V8 (; /html/mgs/1996-11/msg00537.html (7,506 bytes)
16. Re: Why standard? (score: 1): Author: "W. R. Gibbons" <gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu>; Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 09:20:28 -0500 (EST); In short, yes you can. The vast majority of the nuts and bolts on your car will be the same as SAE fine thread. Threads in aluminum castings and such are often coarse thread, which is the same as our; /html/mgs/1996-11/msg00575.html (8,442 bytes)
17. Re: Why standard? (score: 1): Author: Owen Michaels-Hardy <omhardy@ozemail.com.au>; Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 09:51:21 +1100 (EST); Just my $0.02 worth: AF is the name for tools that fit UNF bolts and nuts. If you look at the top of the bolt head it will probably be marked UNF.; /html/mgs/1996-11/msg00619.html (7,722 bytes)

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