On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 18:13:48 UTC, "Ron Lowe"
ronATlowe-famlyDOTmeDOTukSPURIOUS wrote:

"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)

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

I thought that!

The OP might consider (as mentioned here recently) getting both metric
and imperial adjustable spanners...

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