"Mys Terry" wrote in message
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On Fri, 12 May 2006 03:04:50 GMT, "Maxprop" wrote:


"Mys Terry" wrote in message
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On Thu, 11 May 2006 16:25:21 GMT, "Maxprop"
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On Thu, 11 May 2006 12:39:09 GMT, "Maxprop"
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On Thu, 11 May 2006 02:46:51 GMT, "Maxprop"
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Tools are SAE, but our system of numbers is referred to as British.
SAE
tools are numbered in the British fashion.

Yes, our tools are numbered in the "british fashion" of fractions,
but
the
Brits
are expressing metric sizes using fractions, while we are using the
inch.

The Brits abandoned their various systems in favor of the metric
system
decades ago.

If you
needed to work on a 1954 BSA Golden Flash, you would need a set of
WHITWORTH
wrenches and sockets. Neither a metric or American SAE set would fit
properly.

Thankfully I don't own a BSA from that vintage. However I did have an
early
60s conglomerate (built from a variety of parts from various years)
BSA
Gold
Star flattracker, but that was all metric.

Max



Based on your own statements, you VERY obviously did not own a BSA.

Based on your comment, I'd say you are up to you old trick of speaking
without a clue again.

Max


BSA never built an engine using anything other than Whitworth
fasteners, and a very few "mongrel fasteners of their own
specification which do not conform to ANY known standard between the
1930's through the end of the 60's.

That means you are either lying about owning a BSA, or you never did
any of your own work on it and so didn't realize that the fasteners
were Whitworth, not metric.

If they were, as you claim, Whitworth, that didn't alter the fact that my
metric and SAE tools fit them acceptably well.

That sure sounds like an admission that you were full of ****.

Hell yes, I did my own work.

Hard to believe in light of your admission that you didn't even know what
Whitworth is. Then you claimed that YOUR BSA was metric. Now you say your
tools
didn't fit perfectly.

The carbs on those bikes were one of two models by the same manufacturer.
One
model began with a "C" and the other began with an "M". ANY person who had
every
worked on a BSA from the 50's through the early 70's would know this like
their
own name. Name the models, and tell us which was the earlier incarnation.


A poor flattracker could barely afford lunch, let alone a technician to
work
on his ride.


You were not a flat tracker, either.

You really don't deserve an answer, you're such a pompous ass, but for the
record, I not only owned a BSA Gold Star, I owned a Spitfire and a Triumph
Bonneville as well. During my racing years, I owned a Triumph Bonne engine
in a Rickman Matisse frame, replaced it with a Norton 750 Commando engine,
and eventually raced a borrowed H-D XR750, with which I earned a national
amateur title and placed well for three subsequent years. And during that
time I never heard ANYONE mention Whitworth tools--not the other racers, the
mechanics (even those who worked for the BSA dealership) or the other
annoying know-it-alls, like you.

Max