[modeleng] Re: Unknown Thread

  • From: "Len Smith" <parnobal2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 15:32:57 +0100

Looking in Newne's "Engineers Pocket Book" I see that there are no less than 20 
separate parameters with which to measure any thread!
Far more complex than I ever imagined.
Len Smith
ps. Alan, you really ought to pop over some time and collect the above.
L
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: alanjstepney 
  To: modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 3:12 PM
  Subject: [modeleng] Re: Unknown Thread

  George, Don't know about "learning", right now you are teaching.

  Thank you for the info on Thury threads. Now I have all the data on them I
  will add it to my website in case it is of use to someone else in the
  future.

  The list is set not to accept attachments, and I don't think a scan would go
  through either.
  The only answer is to send individual emails direct to another member,
  although if there is ever anything that several people request, I am always
  happy to host it on my website so people can then download it.
  alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

  www.alanstepney.info
  Model Engineering, Steam Engine, and Railway technical pages.


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: "georgecoles" <georgecoles@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 2:54 PM
  Subject: [modeleng] Re: Unknown Thread


  My wife has just plonked "Machinery's Screw Thread Book" (11th Edition,
  published 1941) on my lap. It was published by The Machinery Publishing Co.
  Ltd. of Euston Rd NW1 (War address: 17 Marine Parade, Brighton 1.  'Frying
  pans and Fires ?)
  On the first page of the section on 'British association Thread' after some
  preamble, and a defining drawing, the following appears:

    Designation:-  B.A. : sometimes the Swiss or Thury thread on which the
  B.A. system is based.  In the Swiss prototype the thread was rounded off at
  the top and bottom of the triangle by a radius equal to 1/6 p at the top and
  1/5 p at the bottom, whereas in the B.A. thread the top and bottom of the
  threads are both rounded to the same radius, viz. 2/11 p.

  I don't even remember having this book, which has a myriad of screw threads
  systems defined therein, including 'The Progress System' for watch screws,
  which originated in Switzerland, is based upon the Thury thread, but has a
  thread angle of 50 degrees.

  I don't know if a scan, inserted rather than attached, would work on this
  list, but I'll try if anyone wants the BA or any other thread diagram.

  George Coles
  Lurking and learning.



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