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The Classic Marque

After the recent supermarket hacking in France, where fridges were turned up to 50C, you would have thought they’d have put some measures in place to prevent further attacks. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Dem's have BOTH HOUSES.

Lame duck POTUS.

What will Trump do now?

What CAN Trump do now?

No more war? Iran wins?

More support for Ukraine?

Apt question Trev.

And bombs on planes 'hoaxes', now being attributed to Russia(Putin).

Iran has also made threats. The recent US bomber withdrawal following the arrests and now charges for what happened at RAF Fairford, show they must be taken seriously.

"Two British nationals appeared in court on Tuesday in connection with an alleged Iran-linked plot." https://www.bbc....

Seems highly suspicious that this happens less than a week after our government pipes up about such things. Did they know something?

Trev

Tim, do you mean self tappers? Mine are machine screws.

David, Richard
Now you have me wondering. I used no10 unf taps and dies but the screws from Moss may be 3/16". Similar but not the same. The screws went in though.

Tight for now but I like the insert idea as a more elegant solution.

As David has said an insert may be the best way to go - they are available ready made - tap the larger size and screw in with a thread locker.
Also wire thread inserts (helicoil or uni thread types) are also a possibility and readily available - usually made of stainless.
Tracy Tools stock them in numerous sizes/ thread forms and come as a complete kit.

Shout if you need any assistan...

What size are the threads? It looks like I'll be taking the screen off my frogeye soon and I can see one of the the screw heads is already missing. I can see myself turning up some inserts with a larger thread on the OD and the correct one in the ID and loctiting them in.

Rawlplugs ? Cut down a bit ?

I don't believe I have any threaded screws in my stanchions, just normal screws.

I remember having trouble securing the windscreen stanchions to the frame when I rebuilt the Frogeye. Anyway, I took the car for an Autumn drive today and the RH stanchion ended up detached from the screen frame. Turned out the screen frame threads were weak so the countersunk screws had pulled out - been loosening for a while apparently. I managed to re-tap the three frame holes such that the ...

First letter must be an "I" as that was used exclusively in Irish counties it seems. Z was also reserved for Ireland but has now been used here for a while (I have a reg with a Z although not for the place identifier).