[Mike Noc]

Originally Posted by stevestrat

Puts me in mind of when I had a Norton Commando. I think they used what ever nut and bolt was in the bucket behind them on the production line. AF, Whitworth, you name it, every conceivable British thread, nut, bolt type. Only thing you wouldn't find was metric! More than once I'd go to start a job then grind to a halt, always with the same question in my mind . . . . WTF is supposed to fit that

Still got mine. Thing is with the Commando it was far more ancient than it looked. You could trace the engine back to the 1940s and the gearbox twenty odd years earlier, and the threads they used were common place then.