<< 'nuff said. <evil grin> >>
'fraid not, Vance. Just too much
mis-information to the masses.
<< Technically speaking, MG fasteners are not SAE,
but rather are Imperial
threads. >>
Close but no cigar. After 50ish years of working
on MG's that statement is just
flat wrong. Now IF you would like to say that MGB
[full range] and MG Midgets
[ the Austin-Healey inspired ones] were assemble
with UNF and/or BSF, I agree. And I HAVE removed
plenty of Original fasteners which were either
replaced with UNF or SAE. Never did find
ANYTHING called "Imperial".
I have now been thru several Factory Service Shop
Manuals, Factory Service Parts
Manuals, a couple of the Big Boy Catalogs, AND on
of the UK's larger Fastener Specialist Catalog
with the following "result":
The closest "mention" of Imperial is a conversion
chart for Imperial to Metric.
<< There are a few cases where British and US/SAE
parts will not coexist,>>
Incorrect again. BSF vs UNF/SAE NEVER 'coexist'
TPIs do NOT come close.
Now should you like me to say that a SAE CAN be
FORCED into a BSF 'hole',
YEP - had to repair. No where NEAR as easy to get
a UNF/SAE fastener INTO
a BSF hole however !
<< Just wanted to clarify that point, lest people
think that MG used SAE
(Society of Automotive Engineers) standards - they
did not. >>
Did along with UNF.
<< But we won't go there... It's a French system. >>
That statement whilst basically correct does NOT
apply because of the British
adaptions.
For instance, some of the internal fasteners in
XPAG MG "T" Series" Motors
ARE of the French based system. Get away for the
INTERNALS and all IIRC
remaining fasteners for "T" Series are of the
British Metric "system" aka
Whitworth. . WAIT, forgot that some of fasteners
in the Fuel Systems on "T" Series Cars are BSFs
<VEBG> !!!
HTHs & I am pretty sure Gordie know most of above
<VBG> !!!
Ed
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