I'm still hoping to stumble across a nice set of 'King Dick' sockets in 
the wild.  Besides being good quality, the brand name is a killer.  :)

I almost have SWMBO convinced that a 5 speed trans and  supercharger are 
'must have' upgrades for the TD.  Once she is on board with that, I will 
certainly require the sockets.  Even though the fasteners are funky, you 
have to love the old British machines. You can work on them with hand 
tools, and they really do not leak oil; they are just marking their 
territory.

What year Tiger did you have?  My '72 Daytona is in moth balls now.  
That is a 'unit' machine, so all the fasteners are SAE.

Tim

Cliff Rohrabacher, Esq wrote:
> If you are willing to pay retail, Whitworth tools are still manufactured
> http://www.samstagsales.com/whitworth.htm
> On the Flea Bay you can just plug "whitworth tools" in and get  
> sockets galore
>
>  I used to replace all my whitworth fasteners on my Triumph Tiger 
> every single chance I got. I had a boxes of detent  helicois in 
> 1/4-20,  3/8-16,  10-32,   and 5/16-18
> My preference was Allen heads.
>
>
> On 5/4/2012 4:57 PM, David Erickson wrote:
>> Tim wrote:
>>> I still have a very nice set of Whitworth wrenches for working on my 
>>> '53
>>> MGTD.  I'm still poking around for a decent set of Whitworth sockets.
>>> They are quite rare in the wild here.
>>>
>>> Tim
>> I have the opposite problem: a set of Snap-On Whitworth sockets and no
>> wrenches.  I keep them, thinking that when I retire I will look for 
>> an old
>> British Motorcyle to restore, a late 50's pre-unit construction TR-6 
>> being
>> high on the list.
>>
>> The set of sockets I have were acquired used, but I have always been
>> uncertain whether the set is complete, since some of them say BA, 
>> some BS
>> and others say W.  The set consists of (in order from smallest to 
>> largest):
>> 4BA, 3BA, 2BA, 1/8W, 1BA, 3/16W, 1/4W, 3/8BS, 5/16W, 3/8W, 1/2 BS, 
>> 9/16 BS
>>
>> Perhaps someone can explain the 3 different series, and what is missing?
>>
>> Dave
>>
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