On 28/11/19 6:14 am, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 11/27/2019 1:54 PM, wrote:
I had this question too in the middle of working on a car.Â* That is
when I discovered the following:
5mm = 3/16
8mm = 5/16
11mm = 7/16
14mm = 9/16
(starting to see the pattern?)

Manufacturers are not including the metric sizes which match up to
common SAE sizes, either because the set purchased includes both
metric and SAE or in order to encourage metric users to also purchase
the SAE set given that there are more metric sizes than SAE.

What pattern?Â* 8mm = .315 inchesÂ*Â* 5/16 = .3125
Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Â* 14mm = .5512 inchesÂ* 9/16 = .5625

Yes, works Ok one way but not so well the other.

Close, but not equal.Â* Competent tradesmen that work on both have both
sets of tools.

Absolutely correct. In fact, I had 3 complete sets of tools since I
needed the British sizes as well for the trucks I used to work on.

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Xeno


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