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Club House => Chatter => Topic started by: Oldtimer on November 23, 2018, 10:47:26 PM

Title: Spanners.
Post by: Oldtimer on November 23, 2018, 10:47:26 PM

Having relinquished my old British iron years ago I now find myself with another Brit bike. Nothing wrong with that you may think but I have a slight problem with nuts and bolts that AF and Metric spanners don't fit. So now in my late life I am having to buy sets of BSW/Whitworth spanners and sockets having dispatched my old Whitworth spanners to the bin a long time ago.

Title: Re: Spanners.
Post by: iansoady on November 24, 2018, 04:46:35 PM

Find your nearest car boot sale......

Or you could pay a fortune on ebay for "genuine" "vintage" tool kits.....

Title: Re: Spanners.
Post by: Smithy on November 24, 2018, 08:51:31 PM

What have you bought?

I must admit I have all my old imperial spanners still, well you never know do you?

Ian

Title: Re: Spanners.
Post by: spooky on November 24, 2018, 09:55:54 PM

I have a load of spanners and sockets  i  hardly ever use and duplicates of a lot,  what sizes are you looking for ? 

Title: Re: Spanners.
Post by: Oldtimer on November 25, 2018, 11:17:42 AM

Quote from: spooky on November 24, 2018, 09:55:54 PM

I have a load of spanners and sockets  i  hardly ever use and duplicates of a lot,  what sizes are you looking for ?

I will get back to you on that but generally 3/8 7/16 1/4/ 9/16 are the main ones. It is surprising the number of metric sizes that are a close fit.

Title: Re: Spanners.
Post by: iansoady on November 25, 2018, 12:40:58 PM

Equally surprising how many aren't........

Title: Re: Spanners.
Post by: BrendanO on December 01, 2018, 10:46:21 PM

When I had a mix of British and Japanese bikes, I used to have a photocopy on my garage wall of all the spanner sizes in thou and mm - metric, AF, WHIT, BSF&C..  Came from a book my dad nicked out of Villiets' library when he left the cimpany in 1970. Amazed at how many could be used for summat eks, eg fir those times when you needed TWO of the same spanner.

Gave the book to a friend when he got a dmw deemster (say what?).