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TR2/3/3A the 9/16 & ½ tube socket for the tool kit

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Well I have taken a break from my tub work in hopes that a better idea will come to me and started working again on building a tool kit. I needed the 9/16 & ½ tube socket, so I purchased a tube socket on EBay that was a 9/16 & ½ W. I now know the big difference in Witworth and USA sizes. I do have an original tool kit tube socket for 13/16 and it has no markings. My questions is what size English tube socket do I want for the tool or were the tube sockets for the tool kits made just for the American market.

What is kinda funny and ironic is back in the 1971 when I bought my first tr3 it had the tube sockets and I just put them aside and lost them because who would want a tool like that.

Thanks Tom for the tip you gave on the tool kit screw driver because I found one when I looked up Sheffield.
 
According to the TRA Restoration Guidelines the two tube spanners were 1) a 1/2" X .56" A/F ( the A/F means across flat so they are measuring like we do as opposed to the shank size of the bolt) the .56" calculates to 9/16 in our tools and 2) the spark plug tube spanner.

Charley
 
I am not very clear with this tube socket stuff. If I get ¼ & 5/16 Witworth, I will be closer to a ½ & 9/16 American thread. Chances are the sockets came unmark anyway and today would be only for show. I see the guy that sells the full kits out of New Zealand uses a new tube socket for the 9/16 and ½ inch by 8 inches long.
 
Andrew Mace said:
Keep in mind that, save for a couple of really odd Lucas and/or SU fittings, there is no Whitworth on the average postwar Standard or Triumph.[/QUOTE

Andy,
I have recently been working on some HS6 Carburators and of course their linkage. I keep coming up against bolts and nuts that don't seem to fit inch and often not millimeter very well. What might they be - maybe whitworth?
Charley
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Charley -

Yes, as Andy notes, SUs are one place one finds Whitworth -- in particular I carry a 1/4" (I think) Whitworth wrench for that nut on top of the fuel bowls.
 
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Something like these?
 
Kevin so they are unmarked and the taller one measures ½ and 9/16 across the flat or USA, Perhaps the vender made them special for export and they are not BA or MM? I see that buying one now from England the best way might be to get 12&13 mm to substitute for the tool kit one.
 
Hey, '53, I saw no markings on them. Funny, I've dragged them around in the trunk coming up on a dozen years now. It would never occur to me to use them if necessary; I have a more compact set of tools to use if needed.

Thankfully, never been stranded by my '3, although I have spent some time on the side of the road a time or two, with previously mentioned toolkit...

Good luck with your quest!
 
No marks on mine -- they seem to simply be 1/2, 9/16, 5/8, 3/4s.

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You'd have to be pretty desperate to undertake any serious repairs with these guys.
 
Geo Hahn said:
No marks on mine -- they seem to simply be 1/2, 9/16, 5/8, 3/4s.

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You'd have to be pretty desperate to undertake any serious repairs with these guys.
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The days before cell phones often left one stranded unless you had something to use, no matter how crude.
Charley
 
Geo is that the stock tool roll? It looks like vinyl. I know you have a 4 and 3; I would not know what coated jute looks like anyway for a tr3, so is that tool the coated jute I hear about for a tr3?
 
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