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1. [Mg-t] What's a Whit worth? (score: 1)
Author: Scott Fisher <sfisher71@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 21:06:55 -0700 (PDT)
Now that I'm back in the loving arms of the Sacred Octagon, I need something more than the metric wrenches and sockets that have stood me in good stead with the cars I've been working on since my las
/html/mg-t/2013-05/msg00067.html (9,209 bytes)

2. Re: [Mg-t] What's a Whit worth? (score: 1)
Author: Charles Hill <chillmog@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 23:59:27 -0500
Scott, You are in for quite an education. Almost everything on the TD should be British Standard Fine (BSF). A lot of people call them Whitworth but Whitworth is a coarse thread while BSF is of cours
/html/mg-t/2013-05/msg00068.html (10,989 bytes)

3. Re: [Mg-t] What's a Whit worth? (score: 1)
Author: "mgbob@juno.com" <mgbob@juno.com>
Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 11:51:29 GMT
Scott, To add to Charles Hill's notes: Don't try to use a mix of US and Metric wrenches. Yes, it can be done, but the mess made of nuts and bolts will not offset the cost of the few wrenches needed.
/html/mg-t/2013-05/msg00069.html (10,799 bytes)

4. Re: [Mg-t] What's a Whit worth? (score: 1)
Author: "Gable, Gerry" <GABLEG@ecu.edu>
Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 16:40:36 +0000
Please correct me in I am wrong, but my recollection is that the engine is a tractor engine out of France and therefor is metric. Thanks Gerry --Original Message-- From: mg-t-bounces@autox.team.net [
/html/mg-t/2013-05/msg00073.html (12,072 bytes)

5. Re: [Mg-t] What's a Whit worth? (score: 1)
Author: Scott Fisher <sfisher71@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 10:00:42 -0700 (PDT)
Gerry - let's see if I've internalized it yet: the threads in the XPAG/XPEG are in fact metric (the engine being of Hotchkiss design from France, though I thought the tractor slur was reserved for Tr
/html/mg-t/2013-05/msg00074.html (13,056 bytes)

6. Re: [Mg-t] What's a Whit worth? (score: 1)
Author: "\" Just Brits \" Shop" <shop@justbrits.com>
Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 11:54:29 -0500
HeeHee, but with a TWIST (NO pun intended <G>) Gerry. Some is "French Metric" ! ! Lawrie, Kelvin, Bud, mgbob, Gene G., and I KNOW I am missing some others that KNOW -- youse guys may NOT pipe-up <VBG
/html/mg-t/2013-05/msg00075.html (9,088 bytes)

7. Re: [Mg-t] What's a Whit worth? (score: 1)
Author: "mgbob@juno.com" <mgbob@juno.com>
Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 17:04:41 GMT
No, not a tractor engine at all. When developed, it was thought quite modern and efficient, though it still had the long stroke/bore relationship that resulted from the formula for calculating taxabl
/html/mg-t/2013-05/msg00076.html (12,352 bytes)


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