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MG TD TF 1500 - Floor Board Screw Head Types
| Once again we are faced with the age old question: Slotted or Phillips head? This time on the floor board machine screws. Please weigh in if you have slotted or phillips and TD/TF and car number. |
| Christopher Couper |
| Phillips TF7211 Lonnie TF7211 |
| LM Cook |
| Slotted on all original TDs I have worked on. Tom Lange MGT Repair |
| t lange |
| Chris, all my listed cars had slotted flathead machine screws |
| W A Chasser |
| Slotted TD3042 |
| Lew Palmer |
| I have never seen Philips used there. Sandy |
| Sanders |
| It makes no difference, they are covered by a carpet. |
| IW Martin |
| Bud Krueger, Slotted, TD10855 |
| Bud Krueger |
| Phillips TF1414 Frank |
| Frank Cronin |
| Phillips on original boards. TF9097. |
| M Magilton |
| Sounds like TF's have Phillips and TD's slotted. Like to here from some very late 53 TD's to see if there was some overlap. |
| Christopher Couper |
| They are slotted at least as late as December '52 on TD 23004. Joe |
| Joe Olson |
| Distant memory had TF 7614 with Philips with pointed ends for the short screws for the tranny cover. Not sure about the remainder. George |
| George Butz III |
| TF 8353,born on December,17,1954 has Phillips screws, pretty much everywhere. PJ |
| PJ Jennings |
| I don't know if this is the case for the TF, but most British cars with 'phillips' screws are actually posidrive. Look for the 'cross' pattern etched into the top at 45° angle to the screw bit cross. TDs were definitely all slotted. Warmly, Dave |
| Dave Braun |
| All slotted TD-4834 TD/c-8151 TD/c-16920 TD-19408 TD-24060. |
| W A Chasser |
| Pozidrive came out long after the TF was produced. Sometime in the 60's I believe. The TF had just the "regular" phillips head style. This issue does come up if doing a period correct restoration since replacement screws are mostly all pozidrive. Frank TF1414 |
| Frank Cronin |
| Bill: Does TD-24060 have the car plate attached to the toolbox lid? I would definitely like to here from one of those cars. |
| Christopher Couper |
Chris, I don't know if this helps but this is TD25009. Jud
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| J. K. Chapin |
| JK: From my notes the cut over is around 26000 but I have not been able to pin it down tighter yet. But even still there was no hard cutover for changes around this time and I suspect a lot of the very late changes in the TD happened sporadically at the end of production, not a particular car number. |
| Christopher Couper |
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