A great find. Good luck.
Chuck Norcutt
On 10/30/2010 4:26 PM, Olaf Greve wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> Alrighty; some good news: today I received a small parcel from the UK:
> Piers Hemy sent me two bolts and nuts in the appropriate 1/4"-20 BSW
> size!
> And...
>
> Later today I got extremely lucky. When waiting in the car for
> Gioconda to finish some business in a store, I decided to take a look
> in a nearby antiquities store looking for "Van Houten" items (for a US
> friend of mine with that last name), and just the odd unexpected item.
> Well, I got lucky in the latter: I spotted a glass jar full of taps.
> The light indoors was low, so I walked towards the daylight with it,
> to read the sizes (indoors I could make out that the one on top was in
> a British size). The store owner spotted me wading clumsily through
> the petrol ridden jar, and said I could just have the complete jar for
> 7.50 Euros. THAT was a direct sale!!! :P
>
> I just went through them, and there are 31 (!) taps in total, in
> varying sizes and standards, there are a few metric ones (I spotted at
> least M5, M6, M7 and M8) and the rest seems to be the British sizes
> both BSP as well as BSW! Several ones are repeated, but heck, who
> cares! At 7.50 Euros this was a real STEAL deal; that was VERY cheap
> for these taps!
> And... in amongst the last 5 I took out of the jar, were two that seem
> to be the correct ones, as they are marked: '1/4" W 20'; I take this
> to be: 1/4" BSW, 20 TPI. On Monday (or perhaps sooner) I'm going to
> give them a try.
>
> It looks like I've got all the tools again for continuing this effort.
> The only thing I'll have to find a work-around for is the absence of
> thread on a large part of the two bolts. For now, I may screw them in
> partially (letting part of them stick out the bottom). Next Sunday I
> should meet up with a Scottish mate of mine, and I've just sent him an
> e-mail to see if he can bring a few further bolts and nuts.
>
> I hope to have the set-up ready very soon now; and if not, I'll at
> least have found a good contender for the "world's cheapest jar of
> taps" contest today. :P
>
> Cheers,
> Olafo
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