This morning I attended my self petitioned bankruptcy hearing.
Judge: “ Where’s all the money been spent Mr Grass, booze and women ?”
Me: “No m’lud, on my Atco restoration, honestly”
Judge: “Nonsense. Case dismissed. Next.”
I’ve tried keeping costs under control but I’m on a hiding to nothing. Just the new fasteners alone have cost more than the mower and they’re way down on the list of expenditure ! There is a plus side however. Having said at the outset that I propose offering the results of my labours to a museum or other worthy establishment I doubt I’ll find any takers so auctioning with funds going to a cancer charity may be my only option. At least I’ll glean a little satisfaction that someone will gain from my penury !
Having decided to replace the ½” BSW steel nuts with the equivalent in brass I’ve realised that I will also need ½” imperial brass washers. They’re hens’ teeth. After hours online unsuccessfully trying to trace these in small quantities it occurred to me that folks at Stationary Engine may help so I posted on their forum. The consensus was that M12 should fit over ½” thread so heeding their advice I bought a pack of ten and they fit, just . I already had M12 stainless washers but their ID was fractionally too small so I had assumed that the same would apply to washers made by other manufacturers. It seems that ID and OD sizes can vary by a few thou from one manufacturer to another so it’s pot luck if certain metric washers fit over imperial threads. I’ll also be using brass nuts over 3/8” BSW thread for which M10 brass washers are an acceptable albeit slightly slack fit.
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