Crisis averted !

[Killerwhat]

This might make you smile. My 1300 Metro engine has the thermostat housing with the black plastic screw in plug in the top. Yesterday I was refilling the system after sorting out an old hose leak through the top of the housing and when I came to put the plug back in it broke off just under the flange ! Oh no...where the heck am I going to get one of them from? So, like many of our type I started ferreting through all those boxes and drawers in the the garage and.. Lo and behold....look what fits! ......

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[Stuart]

Go on then, I'll be the first to ask, I don't recognise it, is something to do with house heating or plumbing?

[Killerwhat]

Getting warmer ! (No pun intended)


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[l_jonez]

Radiator bleed valve

[Jin]

That's ingenuity for you

[Killerwhat]

Radiator bleed valve

Spot on!
Handy that isn't it?

[max midas]

It's perfect, you are bleeding a heating/cooling system afterall.
In a similar vein, I found that a Cambels soup tin is exactly the right diameter to put in the crankshaft oil seal next to the flywheel