Must be a bloody old socket set to have Whitworth and BSF in it. Maybe Metric/AF mix or an earlier AF/ BSF/Whit mix but that would be a very old set going back to the early sixties.
Grrrrrr
Technician, Bodgit & Scarper Ltd
Must be a bloody old socket set to have Whitworth and BSF in it. Maybe Metric/AF mix or an earlier AF/ BSF/Whit mix but that would be a very old set going back to the early sixties.
Metric / AF from 25 years or so ago.
Grrrrrr
Technician, Bodgit & Scarper Ltd
Still got the box but it held together with a luggage strap. No catches or hinges left.
Yeah Metric and AF for unified thread stuff i can understand but Whit and BSF are long gone on vehicles. Only thing i ever use BSF or BA spanner sizes on is my Myford lathe.
jamesmartin
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though the track rod brackets on disco and defenders diffs remained bsw up to a few years back
Don't know about that James. But there has not been much Whitworth or BSF stuff around for a very long time. Odd thing here and there maybe.
jamesmartin
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true they were just a hang over ,series were imperial apart from the very early ones before going metric at the beginning of the 80s except the gear box and diff housing bolts for the brackets
I have a decent fully comprehensive set from Halfords, done everything i have needed it for.
That with a good couple of sets of combi spanners in both imp and met.....
Only spanner I have had to borrow was a sodding big one for the defenders steering drop arm nut..... Cant remember the size now though!
That with a good couple of sets of combi spanners in both imp and met.....
Only spanner I have had to borrow was a sodding big one for the defenders steering drop arm nut..... Cant remember the size now though!
jamesmartin
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34mm,sockets better
ovalandrover
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could end up Cur
tomcat59alan
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Ooooo,your mixing with to many communist's
Gmacz
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Unf and unc still alive and current on american machinery, no metric unless parts imported as original country and not made for usa parts.
Most popular unf bolts ie 3/4 match metric ie 19mm in socket sizes.
11/16 is 17mm. 9/16 is 14mm etc.
Only real problem is smaller ones, 3/8 and 10 mm don't match etc.
That is popular and near enough match, not perfect match.
Most popular unf bolts ie 3/4 match metric ie 19mm in socket sizes.
11/16 is 17mm. 9/16 is 14mm etc.
Only real problem is smaller ones, 3/8 and 10 mm don't match etc.
That is popular and near enough match, not perfect match.
pete1987RRC
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Af best thing in the world, can take most of the rangie apart with about 5 sizes, none of the 1mm steps in metric, far too many sizes.........
Correct metric bolt diameters and head sizes are shite it's a frog invention so has to be dodgy.
