[Healeys] BJ8 Glove box lock: set-screw size

[Earl Kagna]

Ben:  The thread size is  4 / 40.  I lost mine as well – made up a new one.  Went to a hobby shop that had model train stuff, bought a bag of 6  4 / 40 x 1/4” – the closest that I could find.  They happened to be allen heads, which was okay because the head faces downward when assembled and is hard to see.  I had to file the head down so that the screw head fit comfortably in the countersunk shaped seat in the lock barrel.  Also had to file the threaded part down so that it did not protrude enough to foul the lock cylinder.  I was a lot of f**ting around, and it cost a bit of fingertip skin, but in the end it worked very well.  In order not to ever have to do it again, I used a tiny touch of blue locktite when I assembled it.

If you can’t find anything, let me know – I have the rest of the bag left and would be happy to mail you a couple.

Earl Kagna
Victoria, B.C.
BJ8, BT7 tri-carb



From: RCT2BNC at aol.com 
Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2015 6:00 PM
To: healeys at autox.team.net 
Subject: [Healeys] BJ8 Glove box lock: set-screw size

Finally, refinishing dash  & glove box on BJ8 that's been off the road...too long. The glove box lock should have a very very small machine screw that holds the inner pot-metal sleeve to the chrome outer casing. Mine have probably been gone since 1970s when it was hard to open the glove box. 

So, does anyone on the list know the correct size for this item? The length is probably 1/8" +/- 

Thanks.

Ben Cohen
BJ833911


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