In article , fred
wrote:
On Wednesday, March 4, 2015 at 8:16:17 AM UTC, Nightjar wrote:
On 04/03/2015 07:52, Chris Bartram wrote:
On 04/03/2015 07:48, Chris Bartram wrote:
On 03/03/2015 17:07, mark wrote:
Like most on here I've got lots of spanners. Sticking with metric
sizes, I've noticed that the majority of my spanner work is with
10mm and 13mm sizes which corresponds to M6/M8.


So what are the other ones for in spanner sets, ie., 9mm, 11mm,
12mm, 14mm and so on. Are they just there to make the numbers up
or make it harder to find the one you want?


mark


Certainly 100mm, 13mm, and 17mm are the most common, but other sizes
crop up. One VW I've had needed 15mm on part of the front brakes,
and they're relatively hard to come by, and not in most sets.
****. *10mm*. 100mm would be interesting.

I used to have one that I think was 75mm, to remove the inspection
plugs in the ends of the air receivers for my compressors. It needed
two hands to lift it.

-- Colin Bignell

Contraplan, office furniture manufacturers of Rugby (Now defunct) used to
supply tables with bolt in legs. The nuts were Whitworth. They had to be
done up as tightly as possible to keep the table stable and only about
1/4 turn of swing was available. Real ******* and it had to be the right
size spanner or the nuts quickly rounded.

what's wring with a good quality AJ?

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