Spanners that don't fit .!

Thats a good one axle!
So 3/8 aint 10mm? strange eh? perhaps its cos ones imperial, tother is metric. You might have also noticed that 1/2"af isnt 1/2"whit either.
Mate, it must be one of those weekends, if I were you I would drop that job and slip up to the local for a soothing drop.
furph

Just be glad you are not working on an old machine that is BSW or BSF.
At least the yanks and Brits agreed on UNC & UNF as standards in the car industry a while ago.

Axle

Looks like you and I are on the same wavelength.

After waiting two weeks for an new axle to be made for my house trailer, it arrived yesterday and mechanic man delivered it. This morning I take evrything apart on the trailer. U-bolts been rusted on for years so out with the angle grinder. Lay old axle against new one and there is a 70mm discrepancy. Nhyit!!!! Luckily new U bolts included with axle so have to refit fit everything to get trailer out of garage to work on truck.

Had repaired Clutch Handle on winch and fit everything back on to bullbar with much cursing and other language as I am doing job meself. Anyway get it all together, fit cable back on drum and start winding cable in. Cable winds in third of way and clutch lets go again. Cable unwinds again. Nhyit!!!! So there is another problem with winch. Bugger bugger bugger! Remove cable and store it and leave shed in disgust...enough crap for one day.

Everthing in life is metric except for U bolt nuts. They are 13/16. Luckily I have that size spanner...lol

Cheers

Have had the same problem which disappeared when I bought sidchrome!!

I don't know,,,,,,,,,,you youngsters today!!

Wait until you're really old like me and can remember having to work with FOUR different spanner sizes!!

Metric, UNF and UNC, Whitworth and BSF,,,,,,,,,

Gawd, you young uns today. Yer don't know yer born,,,,,,

I'll tell ya now that this very website was all feilds when I were a lad,,,,,,,,,,

Bilbo

Well I got sick of that and bundled all the imperial and the odd witworth and hung them from nails on my shed wall.
You do damage to hexagonals using the wrong spanner.

I have 2-3 of each metric size now so when I drop one I can keep going and pick it up off the ground when Im finished.
If I have to, I will cut my cheapest spanner in half if its too long
For the bastards that fall into places my fingers wont go,I have a couple of magnetic probes
Mirrors for seeing around corners are also usefull

Beware of those well finished shiny Indian made spanners in Supercheap. Some of them dont seem to be too accurate. My 19mm is closer to 20mm

There are spanner sets called "Metrinch" and are compatable with ALL systems of nits and bolts.
They grip on the flats of the hex, not the corners and dont slip around the nut. Even grip rounded, damaged nuts and bolts. They are the best thing to have around.
But the only drawback is when ratcheting the socket rocks a bit back and forth during use. Otherwise they are great.
I have a set and resort to them when my metric Sidchrome fail me.

I/2" was never the equivalent of 12mm, 12mm has no close imperial equivalent, neither does 10mm.
The closest are 7/16 to 11mm, 1/2" to 13mm, 9/16" to 14mm, 3/4" to 19mm, 7/8" to 22mm etc.
Any of the above are interchangeable & won't slip, but the previous poster was correct, you can't beat flank drive spanners & sockets.

1 inch is 25.4mm, so 1/2 inch is 12.7 mm. That may be why a 12mm spanner won't fit a 1/2 inch nut.

Gday
And after all that, the steel manufacturer brings out a hex bar that is different to all sizes known to man.

Just dont mention the troopy diff plugs .

My skin crawls reading this. Use the right tool for the job.

Do you want to know another name for a shifter? Portable lathe.

acetylene powered spanners are the best.

Brad

I love the pipe threads, what was 1/2"BSP is now 15mmBSP etc...1/8" BSPT is now 3.2mmBSPT... Oh yeah...Love it. At least my old BSP Taps & Dies fit current fittings...I just have to remember that I'm using Metric sizes LOL...

how about the jeep grand cherokee(yes i know its a jeep thing)alternator bolt
not 14mm 15mmor 16mm hmm 9/16 no 5/8 no
its 15.5 mm and thats about 1/2 un something.
lucky the other bloke had a metrich spanner.
cheers

And an 2400x1200 sheet of timber is 8x4, and a length of 4x2 ain't 4x2???

Nah, you are all wrong.
A 12mm spanner is actually 1.2cm.

I had this argument with a government inspector on a job.
The Eurpoean ISO standard uses millimetres and metres.
But when Australia went metric, by law, the units in the aussie metric system are centimetres and metres.

Because,

It was easier for teachers to relate 1cm to 1/2" , and it was supposed the same for the general public in 1974 during the conversion period.

Of course, when some one wants to be really obtuse, you could talk in dm (decimetres).

Gday
Ther was a bloke talking about that realy small baby born the other day and he said that it was 240cm long?? Isnt that 7'10 1/2'' ......some baby..imagine feeding that in 13 yrs

You wonder when we will ever learn to relate to Metrics.

I was talking to a little girl a while back who proudly told me that she was " 2 foot 10" (or whatever). I mean, she would have to be about 3rd generation into Metrics, and she tells me her height in Imperial!