A little help from my friends...

From: Doc Shipley <doc_at_mdrconsult.com>
Date: Sat May 15 22:04:45 2004

Tony Duell wrote:

>> I had a '69 Triumph T100C - single-carb 500cc twin - that was SAE on
>>body parts, metric on engine peripherals and drive-train, and the engine
>>itself was all Whitworth. I spent more on tools than I did on parts
>>with that bike.
>
>
> My Myford Super 7 Lathe (about 7 years old) has a seemingly random mix of
> Whitworth (BSW), BA, and metric screws. Mind you, you do get a toolkit
> (spanners, allen keys, oil gun, C-spanner for the headstock bearings,
> etc) with it, so it's not so bad....

   Sometimes you just have to wonder "What were they *thinking*?"


        Doc
Received on Sat May 15 2004 - 22:04:45 BST