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Default Hand tools: any reason to bother with imperial, and what brands are "quality"?

"Reentrant" wrote in message
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And sometimes an imperial spanner might fit a damaged metric nut better
than the correct metric one. (That nut might have been rounded by some
idiot using an imperial spanner on it)

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Reentrant



Ah, the 'Belt on the next-smaller socket with a big hammer' trick. An old
favourite!