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Title: Swing Arm Grease Nipple
Post by: Matt_Harrington on September 05, 2023, 07:28:18 PM
Anyone have the size to hand?
The parts book has it as : (B.T6S) 96201-80000

Measured mine and it seems a strange size....
Title: Re: Swing Arm Grease Nipple
Post by: Bryanj on September 05, 2023, 07:49:35 PM
It is a strange size and genuine are not that expensive, just remember to use a tube to hit on the flange not the end
Title: Re: Swing Arm Grease Nipple
Post by: Trigger on September 05, 2023, 11:40:37 PM
Anyone have the size to hand?
The parts book has it as : (B.T6S) 96201-80000

Measured mine and it seems a strange size....

Contact Julie as i just filled up her stock draw with them  ;)
Title: Re: Swing Arm Grease Nipple
Post by: Matt_Harrington on September 06, 2023, 09:09:54 AM
Thanks. I'll put the old one back until I have time to make some s/steel ones - hence I was asking for the size.....
Title: Re: Swing Arm Grease Nipple
Post by: Bryanj on September 06, 2023, 12:43:18 PM
How are you going to make the internal check valve?
Title: Re: Swing Arm Grease Nipple
Post by: Matt_Harrington on September 06, 2023, 12:58:29 PM
I have some larger threaded s/s ones and I was going to re-thread them - if that makes sense....
Title: Re: Swing Arm Grease Nipple
Post by: Oddjob on September 06, 2023, 03:12:52 PM
You're going to rethread the nipple stem or the swinging arm Matt?

Seems simpler to rethread the bolt rather than the nipple. At least then replacements are easy to find.
Title: Re: Swing Arm Grease Nipple
Post by: Bryanj on September 06, 2023, 06:03:16 PM
The originals are push in but i have drilled andctapped the bolt 6mm before now
Title: Re: Swing Arm Grease Nipple
Post by: Trigger on September 06, 2023, 06:06:41 PM
The originals are push in but i have drilled andctapped the bolt 6mm before now

The tread is 400 mate. Only screw type  ;)
Title: Re: Swing Arm Grease Nipple
Post by: Bryanj on September 06, 2023, 06:10:16 PM
Sorry, never look at the header just read the posts!
Title: Re: Swing Arm Grease Nipple
Post by: Trigger on September 06, 2023, 06:14:14 PM
Sorry, never look at the header just read the posts!

Have you just awoken mate  ;)
Title: Re: Swing Arm Grease Nipple
Post by: Bryanj on September 06, 2023, 07:54:40 PM
Been doin stupid hours due to idiots closing the M5 mate
Title: Re: Swing Arm Grease Nipple
Post by: Oddjob on September 06, 2023, 08:04:30 PM
Isn't that part just a normal size Matt? It's the same as the 550 swinging arm nipple and I'm sure I've replaced that with a stainless one before now. What thread pitch is it?
Title: Re: Swing Arm Grease Nipple
Post by: Trigger on September 07, 2023, 12:02:00 AM
Been doin stupid hours due to idiots closing the M5 mate

I can not even remember the last time i was on a Motorway. As you know Bryan, not to many in Lincolnshire  ;)
Title: Re: Swing Arm Grease Nipple
Post by: Matt_Harrington on September 07, 2023, 11:16:19 AM
Ken, it's taper thread. It maybe M6 x 1 but I will check later when I unearth my nipple box (that just sounds wrong!) I have some identical S/steel ones but the thread is bigger so I was just contemplating modifying one .....Anyway, the old one is back where it belongs!
Title: Re: Swing Arm Grease Nipple
Post by: Oddjob on September 07, 2023, 04:03:27 PM
Could you not just run a normal tap down the hole and make it like the stainless one you have?

Pretty sure you're right BTW, M6 x 1.00 sounds right.
Title: Re: Swing Arm Grease Nipple
Post by: Matt_Harrington on September 08, 2023, 11:46:40 AM
I could but I didn't fancy getting swarf inside the arm. Anyway, biking/bikes curtailed for a while as I almost cut my thumb off on a table saw and I'm now feeling rather stupid at my carelessness and sporting a rather lrge bandage on my hand!  :-[
Title: Re: Swing Arm Grease Nipple
Post by: Johnny4428 on September 08, 2023, 01:10:34 PM
I could but I didn't fancy getting swarf inside the arm. Anyway, biking/bikes curtailed for a while as I almost cut my thumb off on a table saw and I'm now feeling rather stupid at my carelessness and sporting a rather lrge bandage on my hand!  :-[

Not Good!🥵🥵😳
Title: Re: Swing Arm Grease Nipple
Post by: Bryanj on September 08, 2023, 01:27:48 PM
Did you make up any new anglo saxon words?
Speedy recovery
Title: Re: Swing Arm Grease Nipple
Post by: Matt_Harrington on September 08, 2023, 05:10:43 PM
I was remarkably calm considering the blood that was flowing! Even managed to drive myself to A&E.
All stitched up now....
Title: Re: Swing Arm Grease Nipple
Post by: Bryanj on September 08, 2023, 05:33:26 PM
Many years ago when removing rear wheel bearing from a triumph t140 after a liquid lunch my left thumb got trapped between the speedo drive flange on the hub(about 1/8 thick steel and a rapidly moving lump hammer, i proved you could get a 1970 3.0ltr capri round a right angle turn at 60mph with 4 people in it!

The downside nowadays is that as well as the nerves on the end of my thumb letting me feel what i touch so does the scar half way down tell me its the end of my thumb
Title: Re: Swing Arm Grease Nipple
Post by: McCabe-Thiele (Ted) on September 08, 2023, 05:54:15 PM
I could but I didn't fancy getting swarf inside the arm. Anyway, biking/bikes curtailed for a while as I almost cut my thumb off on a table saw and I'm now feeling rather stupid at my carelessness and sporting a rather lrge bandage on my hand!  :-[

My late Father-in-Law cut off his  thumb & part of the adjacent two fingers  when cutting up timber on his Petrol driven bench saw in the garden. At the time he was a Drayman for Allied Breweries - the hospital stitched the bits back on but his thumb was a sold fix as he lost the joint. About 6 /8 weeks later he was back at work! Back then he had no safety guards on his 40 year old saw.
Title: Re: Swing Arm Grease Nipple
Post by: Nurse Julie on September 08, 2023, 06:00:45 PM
I could but I didn't fancy getting swarf inside the arm. Anyway, biking/bikes curtailed for a while as I almost cut my thumb off on a table saw and I'm now feeling rather stupid at my carelessness and sporting a rather lrge bandage on my hand!  :-[
Ooooh, sounds like a close shave Matt. That'll be throbbing later 😭😭😭😭
Title: Re: Swing Arm Grease Nipple
Post by: McCabe-Thiele (Ted) on September 08, 2023, 07:17:04 PM
I could but I didn't fancy getting swarf inside the arm. Anyway, biking/bikes curtailed for a while as I almost cut my thumb off on a table saw and I'm now feeling rather stupid at my carelessness and sporting a rather lrge bandage on my hand!  :-[

Sounds bad Matt hope it all heals up soon.

I recently gave away my Bosch Disc Cutter as it has always scared me when cutting Slabs & Pavers as it was impossible for me to hold it steady when I pulled the safety switch to ON,  the torque was just too much for my aging arms. I was always afraid of cutting off a toe! I bought it almost 30 years ago to cut my garage roof tiles with so it owed me nowt.

Title: Re: Swing Arm Grease Nipple
Post by: Matt_Harrington on October 07, 2023, 10:13:35 AM
M6 x 1 (45deg) grease nipples seem to fit AOK - found a stash in my box and tried one out.....
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