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Default Why do they skip sizes of metric combo wrenches?

LSMFT wrote in :

Jules Richardson wrote:
On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 19:32:22 +0000, Red Green wrote:

Be it Sears, HF, HD, etc.

They often go 6,7,8,10,11,12...

Not always in larger sets. But like who would buy an SAE set of any
size if it ran from say 3/8 to 3/4 without a 9/16?


Depends what's missing, I suppose. I used to rarely find things that
were 11mm. 8, 10 and 13mm were very common, and everything else
somewhere inbetween.

Personally I like having at least a couple of everything in a variety
of socket depths and drive sizes.

cheers

Jules


15mm is used on bicycle wheels, never in metric sets. You have to go
buy it separately like many others.

Did you ever find a nut that was neither metric nor SAE? I have.


Yea, my ex.