[modeleng] Re: BA/ME Thread Query
- From: Bede McCormack <bede@xxxxxxx>
- To: modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 10:34:19 -0500
Wow, what collective knowledge! I checked the lever frame suggestion
Edward made, and the stay ends on my lever frame do seem to be 7BA, but
again, don't quite match the threads on the forks. Why make them
different? The fork threads do seem to be about 48tpi (I have a few
bits of threaded rod that came with the batch of forks), so after
calling Reeves to find out they don't carry 3/32 BSW, I actually found
a place in upstate New York that does, imported from the UK of
course... They only have HSS, so it ain't cheap ($18.40). Anyway, I
have that coming in a day or two and will follow up with the list when
it arrives. Odd size, though, methinks!
Here's the upstate NY url in case anyone looking for an odd size is
unaware of it, even for the UK-based contingent if you get desperate!
http://www.britishfasteners.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc
Thanks for all the input,
Bede on the Brooklyn Riviera
On Dec 19, 2006, at 8:44 AM, Alan Stepney wrote:
> Tel, I think you might have it.
> I had forgotten 3/32BSW.
> At 0.09375 it is right between 7 and 8 BA, and 48tpi (I had to look it
> up)
> it isnt far from the BA threads.
>
> As for cycle, as mentioned by Andrew, there are several around those
> sizes,
> (details are on page 75 of my website) but I reckon that BSW is more
> likely.
>
> If the originals were made by Bassett Lowke, they did source a lot of
> goods
> from Germany from their inception up to WW2, and some were to metric
> dimensions, although I dot think any standard metric thread is in that
> size.
> Bonds, on the other hand, were AFAIK strictly British dimensions. Easy
> to
> check as they still exist, in Rumbolds Hill, Midhurst, and contacting
> them
> might provide the answer, if they were a Bonds product.
> Alan Stepney
>
> http://www.alanstepney.info
> Model Engineering & steam engine information pages
> ----- Original Message -----
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>
> 3/32W is also a standard thread and could well be wot it is
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