Shoddy Hardware (Was: Re: WW fixtures (was Re: "New" PDP-8))

From: Merle K. Peirce <at258_at_osfn.org>
Date: Thu Apr 4 17:22:34 2002

That's because you had the wrong wrenches. I've always wanted to have
someone ask me for a half-inch wrench and hand him a Whitworth
half-inch. I think there's a set in the Rover.

On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Doc wrote:

> On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Merle K. Peirce wrote:
>
> > American National Coarse. Whitworth is always coarse as I recall. Its
> > fine companion would, I think, be BSF - British Standard Fine. Tony can
> > probably confirm this.
>
> Almost on-topic, except it had zero computing technology -- I rode a
> '69 Triumph T100C (single-carb 500cc twin) for several years that had a
> combination of metric, SAE, and Whitworth fasteners. IIRC, all the body
> parts were metric, the external engine components - covers, jets, etc -
> were SAE, and the engine internals were Whitworth. I may have that
> swapped around.
> I dunno if Whitworth was always _coarse_, but it was always
> _irritating_!
>
> Doc
>
>

M. K. Peirce

Rhode Island Computer Museum, Inc.
Shady Lea, Rhode Island

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