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brightspark
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rgm norton motorcycles in beckermet cumbria they do postal del or the norville motorcycle company birminham thats where i got mine from
both do worldwide shipping get there catalogue of spares sentTry Trident fasteners - they do NAS bolts. K nuts and a load of other high tensile stuff. They won't be cheap though ! I'm rebuilding a car - using NAS bolts, titanium fasteners where possible etc and the cost is frightening.
http://www.tridentracing.co.uk/info/fastas.htm
Garreth
http://www.tridentracing.co.uk/info/fastas.htm
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Thanks for the replies , brightspark what i am going to do is put the commando crankshaft into a pre-unit triumph engine , it already has a 750 big bore kit so the new capacity with the norton crank will be around 830 cc, i am also going to offset the crank to 90 degrees while i am at it.
Garreth What sort of money are you talking pricewise with the bolts you are buying ?
Garreth What sort of money are you talking pricewise with the bolts you are buying ?
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Not sure if this will help but often in the aircraft industry a lot of perfectly okay stuff is thrown in the scrap bin "missing conformity paperwork" if another forum member has access to such material
you get it for cheap
any help guy's
you get it for cheapany help guy's
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Have you tried EJOT?
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ronan
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dont worry tigler this is an old thread from april 2011 ronans probably built the bike and sold it by now
Nope , i decided against the big twin with its vibes etc and lucked upon most of a 1969 t150t triple engine, much smoother and faster
. I do still have the crank and cams to match, i hope at some stage in the future to build a bobber , so i'll use it then.
"aircraft grade" always makes me chuckle when I see it in adverts or posts or it's mentioned in a conversation. It means nothing.
Most things "aircraft" have a very strict standard and every nut and bolt will need to meet that standard and has to be proven to do so. For a given application the standard might be exactly the same as for a 5 pence BZP 8.8 set screw that you could buy in any hardware place. The difference is that in the aircraft industry they will require such a guarantee from the manufacturer that each and every bolt in the box will be within that standard that they will have to pay a pound each for them.
Iain
Most things "aircraft" have a very strict standard and every nut and bolt will need to meet that standard and has to be proven to do so. For a given application the standard might be exactly the same as for a 5 pence BZP 8.8 set screw that you could buy in any hardware place. The difference is that in the aircraft industry they will require such a guarantee from the manufacturer that each and every bolt in the box will be within that standard that they will have to pay a pound each for them.
Iain
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Yep, it's like 'CNC machined' or 'billet aluminium' to car/bike blingers... as though it somehow adds mythical properties to the component.
I visit a couple of aero engine service facilities; some of the nuts and bolts are individually serial-numbered
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I spent a few years in the aircraft business. Maintaining light twins and a lot of tube and fabric rebuilds.
Opened a box of castillated nuts, usual paper work and price to match. One was not threaded and another was threaded at 60deg off centre.
Had the undercarriage motor burn out coming into land at Southend. Found out later it was a Pontiac seat motor, just a/c approved and priced.
Still, when the wings are held on with a couple of 3/8" bolts, it helps if they are well made.
KF
Opened a box of castillated nuts, usual paper work and price to match. One was not threaded and another was threaded at 60deg off centre.
Had the undercarriage motor burn out coming into land at Southend. Found out later it was a Pontiac seat motor, just a/c approved and priced.
Still, when the wings are held on with a couple of 3/8" bolts, it helps if they are well made.
KF
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I intercepted some nice-looking nuts'n'bolts that were about to be lobbed in a skip: they'd been used in an engine rebuild aboard one of HM destroyers. I asked why they weren't simply being returned to stores and the reply was that once the box is opened, it has to be either used or scrapped - even if no parts are removed
Still, when you have taxpayers' money to play with...
And yet I watched a program about mystery aviation crashes and on one British airline aircraft, it wasn't BA, a fitter had fitted a new windscreen using incorrect bolts !! Windscreen fitment is critical and it's no surprise it blew out and caused a big hole to be ripped in the side of the aircraft, amazingly the pilot managed to get it down with loss of life or serious injury !
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I intercepted some nice-looking nuts'n'bolts that were about to be lobbed in a skip: they'd been used in an engine rebuild aboard one of HM destroyers. I asked why they weren't simply being returned to stores and the reply was that once the box is opened, it has to be either used or scrapped - even if no parts are removed
Still, when you have taxpayers' money to play with...
Sop I'm afraid. The site I do a bit of work at has kit on site that is different from standard NSU so last time the stores were audited they tried to throw out 5k worth of rubber sealing strip (brand new) as it didn't have a stock number as we're the only site I NATO with the kit so no stock number for the spares!
Fast trip with transit later to save the parts was needed
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Was that the one where the pilot was dragged partially out of the blown screen?
