Saving Old Seagulls

Posted: **Sun Oct 05, 2008 10:24 pm**

Ahh sacred and wondrous wizards ..
keepers of the sacred light ...
<<if that's not fluffed up your egos nothing will >>

a technical question from a mere spanner wielder

a rather bu**ered thread (have to carefull here with technical terms) on the dome nut end of the crank

what is the right size of the die to repair / tidy this thread up ?

Posted: **Mon Oct 06, 2008 11:43 am**

7/16 BSF. Don't let anybody convince you to change it to metric ....

Peter

Posted: **Mon Oct 06, 2008 9:49 pm**

A gud tip if u have a spare nut is using a hacksaw cut through to the inside of hole on one side of nut then run this nut down thread may clean thread up.

Posted: **Mon Oct 06, 2008 9:54 pm**

That's a good tip. Must remember it.

Posted: **Mon Oct 06, 2008 11:24 pm**

thanks chaps

prefer Peters option with the proper tooling ....

if only cos I dont have a spare dome nut to sacrifice in such a devil-may-care proposal

Posted: **Wed Oct 08, 2008 10:46 pm**

kinda meaning I'm a bit short on dome nuts at the moment ....

interesting having thought about it tho...as the dome nut is brass, wouldn't it wear before the crank thread being as that's steel ?

Posted: **Wed Oct 08, 2008 10:55 pm**

Ah but some nuts are steel!

Saving Old Seagulls

floundering, a bit out of my depth

floundering, a bit out of my depth