"nick hull" wrote in message
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Gunner Asch wrote:

now that the engine was warm and had circulated the oil a bit...at least
15 yrs or more..old...it was time to change the oil. I located the oil
drain on the starboard side of the engine..and attempted to remove it.
It is Whitworth.... the closest match was a 15/16 wrench..which
promptly started to round the head of the plug off. A good crescent
didnt work, a 23 mm didn work....Knippex 'channel locks" didnt work...so
i quite while there were still flats on the plug......this is gonna be
interesting to get out.

There are 'channel pliers' made for hex nuts, even better are locking
pliers made for hex nuts. Try a farm store.

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Gunner,

You could do like one of my pals did in 1960, he bought a Triumph
Thunderbird, and when he found Whitworth nuts and no tool kit with the bike,
he just took the next nearest American size wrench and a ball-pein hammer
and rapped the box wrenches down over and - - instant American sized,
though butchered-looking nuts. ( Did I mention, this lad was not at all
fastidious or pure of heart in anything he did?)

Six months later, he sold it for a Norton, and the guy who bought it cursed
him for a year - loudly, roundly and soundly.

Flash