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Re: What is a flat?

To: british-cars@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: What is a flat?
From: DANIELS@LMSBVX.TAMU.EDU (Lee Daniels/TAMU-LMSB Systems)
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1991 15:45:11 CDT
>I don't know how much each flat drops or raises the jet, but it's
>a truly minuscule amount.

Well, lessee... If you know many threads per inch you've got...
Here we go - I'm looking at a screw on my desk that has 48 - so that's 
about 0.021" per full turn, or 0.0035" per flat...   So has anybody taken a 
thread guage to your jet?
   
Lee M. Daniels     |  daniels@lmsbvx.tamu.edu  |  (409) 845-3726


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