On Monday, May 15, 2017 at 8:56:05 AM UTC-4, robobass wrote:
On Monday, May 15, 2017 at 2:06:44 PM UTC+2, Terry Coombs wrote:
On 5/15/2017 6:27 AM, robobass wrote:
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I am in a metric country, but I'm sure the principal applies in North America as well.

This is a very common socket kit here. There are many brands, many manufacturers, all are basically the same. The box is very useful, except for one incredible annoyance. The sockets go in 1mm increments from maybe 4 or 5 up to 14mm. No one has ever used the 14mm socket, ever. Why wouldn't they leave it off, and use a 15mm socket in that last place instead?

And, why don't other people ask a questions like this?

Really ? I use a 14mm socket pretty often . In this case , even a
14mm might be too big for the amount of torque that 1/4" can handle .

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Snag

Really? On what? I live in Germany. I own machines, two cars, and many bicycles. I don't think I've ever used a 14mm socket. It's like 8, 10, 13, 15, 17, 19,...
12, 16, 18 once every tenth blue moon maybe, but never 14.

14mm was the "reduced-size" Japanese standard for M10 bolt heads, 'way back, when they used JIS standards and before they went to ISO.

If you have an old Japanese bike or car, and if your metric set jumped from 13 to 15, you would be MUCH more ****ed off than you are about the 14 being included in your set. d8-)

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Ed Huntress