Temp Sender Thread

[groucho]

Araldite, there's an interesting option, especially as I have some sitting on the shelf. If it doesn't work I can just drill it out and tap to a larger size and fit a reducer as also suggested.

I am trying to avoid having to remove the housing from the block as I think this will be a pig of a job and will lead to other issues (i.e. busting it). I have not reinstalled the wings and radiator yet so have pretty good access.

Now I have to try and locate some BSP plug taps, especially the full plug tap to cut a thread right down to the shoulder that the sender seats onto.

Cheers,

Some BSP and GAS threads are the same 14 TPI.......
Seeing where you live there must be lots of that stuff still around.......

[Bigbjorn]

Some BSP and GAS threads are the same 14 TPI.......
Seeing where you live there must be lots of that stuff still around.......

Some people called pipe threads Gas but officially there is no such thing. Town gas plumbing in Oz always used BSP threads. Pre WWII a lot of USA tap and die makers called BSP tools Whitworth and one occasionally still encounters old US made pipe threading tools marked "W". This is because at that time this was the only Whitworth form thread used in the USA.

You have in common use in Australia BSPT, BSPP, NPS, NPT, NPT Dryseal, and a few other variants of NP. Metric Conduit threads are often encountered. Easy to recognise as they are all 1.5mm pitch.

BSPT & BSPP are accepted as an ISO system and called ISO R and ISO G.

[groucho]

Some people called pipe threads Gas but officially there is no such thing. Town gas plumbing in Oz always used BSP threads. Pre WWII a lot of USA tap and die makers called BSP tools Whitworth and one occasionally still encounters old US made pipe threading tools marked "W". This is because at that time this was the only Whitworth form thread used in the USA.

You have in common use in Australia BSPT, BSPP, NPS, NPT, NPT Dryseal, and a few other variants of NP. Metric Conduit threads are often encountered. Easy to recognise as they are all 1.5mm pitch.

BSPT & BSPP are accepted as an ISO system and called ISO R and ISO G.

unofficially i have a full set markde GAS

[Bigbjorn]

LAL brand and very old, probably pre WWII. Lanham, Archer, and Lane.I don't think they still exist.

The British Standard was BS Pipe, and the term gas was never used in a standard.

I can't read the size on that tap but 14tpi makes it either 1/2", 5/8", 3/4", or 7/8". 5/8" and 7/8" are BSPP only, not BSPT.

[groucho]

LAL brand and very old, probably pre WWII. Lanham, Archer, and Lane.I don't think they still exist.

The British Standard was BS Pipe, and the term gas was never used in a standard.

I can't read the size on that tap but 14tpi makes it either 1/2", 5/8", 3/4", or 7/8". %/8" and 7/8" are BSPP only, not BSPT.

They were my Grandfathers down to Dad and on to me.

Got two large lockers with all the good English stuff.
There is a lot of things that i still don't know what they were used for.....

[cjc_td5]

Some BSP and GAS threads are the same 14 TPI.......
Seeing where you live there must be lots of that stuff still around.......

Might have a sniff around for some BSP taps at the Bathurst swap meet at the end of this month.

Chris