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Re: Fuel sender nut

To: Healey Lista <healeys@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Fuel sender nut
From: Magnus Karlsson <magnuskarlsson@bornet.net>
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 10:23:17 +0200
John,

Can you please give the names and adresses of the two suppliers?

Magnus Karlsson
Sweden
26 aug 2006 kl. 09.29 skrev John Harper:

> I think it unlikely that an American small thread would be used on a
> British built car with a unit starting life in the 1950s.
>
> If your #4-48 nuts appears to fit then it is much more likely that the
> correct one would be 6 BA
>
> The difference is very small
>
>                 4-48            6BA
>
> TPI             48              47.85
> O/D             0.112"          0.1102"
>
> BA fixings are still available in the UK but the even sizes are more
> readily available that the odd.
>
> 3BA, 5BA & 7BA are used on many early Lucas products and these are a
> little more difficult but I know of two UK suppliers who keep good
> stocks and offer a very quick turnaround. Prices of odd sizes are a
> little high with steel nuts around 4 pence each and a typical screw
> around 7 pence UK prices.
>
> Regards
>
>
>> The mysterious thread you are asking about is a #4-48.  I have run  
>> across this
>> same thread other places on the Healey.  If you can not find nuts  
>> with this
>> thread, let me know.  I know we are on opposite sides of the  
>> ocean, but I have
>> extras that I could send to you if need be.
>> Ken Mason
>> BJ7 in work
>>  ----- Original Message -----
>>  From: P.J.Aeckerlin<mailto:j.aeckerlin@tiscali.nl>
>>  To: Healeys<mailto:healeys@autox.team.net>
>>  Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 10:41 AM
>>  Subject: Fuel sender nut
>>
>>
>>  This time a question for my British Healey friends. I just  
>> discover that
>>  a little nut is missing from my fuel tank gauge sender unit. It's  
>> the
>>  nut under which the cable is clamped. I've emptied all my jam  
>> jars with
>>  peculiar nuts and bolts but nothing fits.
>>  I'm afraid the thread is something like BA thread, and in my view  
>> the
>>  only opportunity to get a BA threaded nut that small (the o/d of the
>>  thread is just over 3 mm or 120 thou) is to ask someone in the UK to
>>  empty their jam jar(s) and see whether they can find one, JUST  
>> ONE, nut
>>  that would help me out of my problem.
>>  Any  reaction will be appreciated.
>>  Kind regards, and thanks in advance!
>>  Jack Aeckerlin, The Netherlands
>>  1964 BJ8 29432 starting to look like a Healey
>>
>
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