On 2013-10-27, wrote:
On Sat, 26 Oct 2013 22:05:27 -0700, Larry Jaques
wrote:


And -- on my first one (a '57) -- someone before had replaced

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was the only Whitworth hardware on the car. I had to use a crescent
wrench on it. :-)

Known to the rest of the world as an "english wrench" and to the Brits
as a "french wrench"
AKA a "fitzall" or a "damnit wrench"

When a friend and I used to do a lot of work on our cars, we
would commonly say "Please pass the (bigger/smaller) metric", meaning
the Crescent -- even though nothing on our cars was Metric. :-)

Enjoy,
DoN.

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