Classic cars forum & vehicle restoration.

[pigtin]

Well I've done it at last. Sorted some 30-40 boxes of assorted nuts and bolts. About two cwt (is that allowed?) now reside in three seed trays and four paint tubs, except for the ones I liked the look of and put in labeled pidgeon holes.

Perhaps at some time in the distant future someone will rummage through the boxes and after ten hours hold aloft a 3BA cheese head brass screw 5/8ths of an inch long and cry Eureka! But I somehow doubt it.
Don.

[buzzy bee]

Hi

So you enjoy sorting bolts do you, do you want to come over and see my collection????

Cheers

Dave

[pigtin]

You make it sound as though I have some sort of 'Fastner fetish' although I am going to lay awake all night worrying about getting the 1/4" BSF and 1/4" UNF mixed up. that 2 tpi certainly makes a difference, but you can't see it.

[oldgoaly]

now are you guys sitting there with boxes of whitworth, bs ,bf, metric, sae? and some your not sure of? When i bought my 37 MGTA the guy had a pile of boxes of whitworth/bs/bf, i wish i had taken the two mini-coopers scca class racers and a 1/2 dozen cooper S motors home with me! still kicking myself about that one! Old style hardware is becoming hard to find, almost all the small hardware store are gone. Take care! tt

[buzzy bee]

Hi

I didn't mean to make it sound like that! Just I have a crate or two of nuts and bolts, that I need sorting, as I can never find what I want, some of my stuff, goes back to when it was made by the village blacksmith! Got that stuff of an old chap!

Cheers

Dave

[pigtin]

The memsahib still tells anyone, who is willing to listen, about my undisguised joy at once being given a large jar of rusty springs. She just will not understand the beauty and usefuness of such a gift.