What is the best way to seal the bolt head or stud nut where it meets the cast aluminium manifolds (Water outlet & inlet branch)?
The parts list says that a "set screw" (BC20/BC21/BC22 ) is used without any under head washer (neither flat nor spring).

As a point of order!! I understood that a set screw was fully threaded to under the head, and a bolt had a plain shank.
The Parts book illustrations clearly show what I would describe as "sets" as "bolts", and elsewhere in the parts list fully threaded fasteners are called bolts!
Did the terminology change, or have I been labouring under a misapprehension for years? Of course, to confuse the issue, short "bolts" are often threaded right up to the head to give sufficient thread engagement!
Is there anywhere published a list of fasteners used on Austin Sevens by diameter/thread/head style? 
I wonder if/when Austin ever "commonised" the part numbers across the range of vehicles...Austin 12's etc must have used the same etc fasteners as Sevens.

Pearl Opel on eBay is selling some off some nice new parts, worth a look even if you don't need them now.

Are the fuel tank sender retaining screws 1/4 BSF? For my 1935 Opal.
Thanks
Roly

I am having a small batch of these gears made now to suit the casings I make.
They are awkward gears to make as the one driven by the camshaft ,6 tooth is cut at a steep angle and needs a particular machine to be able to cut it.There is turning,milling,gear cutting,spark erosion,heat treatment, and grinding involved and the cost would be around £145 -150 a pair.
Is there anyone who would like any extra gears for their cars while I am getting them done.I would need to know quickly as they are now in process.
Please PM me if you need some.

Hello all

I have recently purchased a smith clock for my chummy, and wondering was there a particular position the clock sat on the left hand side of the dash? 

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Hi All,

I've got a very stiff fuel tap so I ordered another from one of the usual suppliers, thinking(stupidly) that they must be all the same. What I was sent was 3/8" in and 1/2" out. Does anyone have a source of 1/2 inch in and 1/2 inch out?

 I don't want to add an adapter for more opportunities to leak, or somehow patch the tank to a smaller size.

Erich in Seattle

I have to record thanks to our gallant web administrators who can be so parient and helpful with those of us old chaps who are not desparately good with computers, thanks so much!

And thanks are also due to whoever is putting time and effort into making the images on the previous site accesible again. Doing a little searching for info about that herioc pair, Goodacre and Trevisan in thier Ulster in the 1931 Mille Miglia I discovered that  illustrations have returned. This really is very helpful and greatly appreciated.

I have an Idea.

I already build cars and I have a 900ft2 workshop on a farm in Ditchling East Sussex.

I'm 62, not quite an old fart, but not far off, but I'm a lunatic enthusiast in many directions. I've been thinking of late about either attracting a younger person to assist/inject new ideas etc, on a kind of apprenticeship level or whatever else might spring to mind.

I have tools and equipment.

It occurs to me that I might be able to help other 7 owners in my vicinity, or, as is being discussed on another thread, offer perhaps some space to younger owners of 7s or those thinking about it.

Once I've had a good cathartic clearance in my workshop, I could make space for a couple of 7s or so, or 3, all things are possible. Younger blood around me might generate new ideas and be mutually beneficial.

My rent is cheap, so perhaps I could offer quite cheap garaging/workshop space. 

But...how do we attract new blood, and locally?

Interestingly, I also have put-up/fold up marquees (good quality ones) that I used to use for airshows and when I hawked myself about the Uk selling aviation art. These could be put to some use perhaps. I have 4 such frames 3m x 6m, but only one set of decent panels and canopy (rats chewed the others up!)

How for example, would I go about discovering how many 7s there are in East Sussex and contacting those owners...presumably there's a listing available?

Anyway, just a daft idea, that at the very least might enthuse me more and might enthuse others?

Arthur

Many will know about the A7 on top of the Cambridge University Senate House but I had not heard of the A7 that ended up hanging under the Kingsgate Bridge in Durham in the mid-1960s.

I was giving a talk about A7s at our local 41Club/Round Table this week when a young chap came up to me and showed me the picture. He was a student at Durham fairly recently and had somehow heard of the event - though he didn't know what the car was until I told him.


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Copyright of the photo is not known to me.

I have a question for owners of 'Ulster'-type cars that have a hood (if there are any out there?). The windscreen has two lugs, pointing backward and the hood frame peak has two brackets with slots into which the lugs locate. How does the hood frame lock to the screen? I have examined my copies of Chris Gould's tract on constructing an ulster, Rincey Mills and Brian Purves, Source Book and am no wiser.

Is it that the windscreen wing nuts are loosened and the screen pushed backwards to press the lugs downwards when in the slots before then tightening the wing nuts again? Or should there be a lip or channel in the peak that the screen glass tucks into?

Puzzled in East Sussex