In message <Pine.ULT.3.91.950108210850.16343B-100000@eclipse.sheridanc.on.ca>
Gord Mummery writes:
> This is a attempt to start a tread on threads.
> After waiting a year to get my car back from the bodyshop, I am now
> attempting to put it all back together again. What should be a joyous
> task is turning out to be just a tad frustrating. First of all my garage
> is freezing and to small :-(. Secondly, I've seems to have misplaced
> about 40 various nuts and bolts.
>
> Soooo, of to the local home depot (Its close). I show the sales person in
> the nut department ( really !)." Well", he says," What is that off?" I
> can tell by the look on his face that he will be of no help.
>
> By the way, if your looking for metric car nuts and bolts, Home Depot
> does have a good selection, but nothing for british cars.
>
> So what exactly is the difference between north american standard and
> british nuts and bolts. Secondly, does anyone know of any place in the
> west end of Toronto that can supply british nuts and bolts? I whould
> prefer not to have to send off to TRF with the canadian dollar at such a
> sorry state :-(, but that still is an option.
>
>
At least you have a garage to work in. So purchase a propane or coal oil
heater.
As far as Nuts & bolts, you didn't say what you are rebuilding. Unless it is
something really old it most likely uses SAE corse thread for bolts & studs that
go directly into the cast iron engine parts & SAE fine thread for everything
else except the SUs which are Witworth.
As I rebuild my TR3, I'm putting in new bolts every place I can. My old ones
thend to be rusty, and I remember the trials of getting them off. So I'm using
anti-seize alot. Luckally I have a major hardware store close by. I'm finding
myself making bolt runs all the time. I often carry parts with me to make sure
the bolts will be the right size. When you reuse a bolt, or stud, run a die or
thread chaser down it to clean up the threads before reusing, & don't forget to
use a tap on those nuts & stud holes.
Collecting a big pile of genuine 30+ year old rusty bolts that WILL NOT see my
TR3 again!
TeriAnn Wakeman Large format photographers look at the world
twakeman@apple.com upside down and backwards
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