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Andy wrote:
Good offer, mate! For something as small as a few nuts I'll try my
local hardware store first.

You'll be lucky. Pretty well everything has been metric for ages.

They're very close. Or my mate a the local
garage cos that may the sort of thing he never threw away!

Whitworth nuts and bolts weren't much used on cars being so coarse, and
not really on any car soon after WW2 when things went to unified threads.

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*I wished the buck stopped here, as I could use a few*

Dave Plowman London SW
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