I have a huge collection of inch wrenches from my days working on race cars. My metric set is seriously lacking. I guess I should correct that. (Although the only two cars that I've really worked on in the last twenty years were SAE inch standard: my 55 Chevy convertible and my 79 Jaguar XJ 12L. Paul On May 12, 2007, at 1:39 PM, graywolf wrote:
> Well, I have now replaced my cheap junk metric combination wrench set, > bought after someone smashed the window out of my car and grabbed > my ham > radio and box of tools some years back, with a set of Craftsman's. > I do > note that they are not as nice as the inch set bought back then. Of > course every time I used the cheap wrenches, I muttered to myself, "I > need to get a decent set of metric wrenchs", so Murphy actually helped > me out there. > > I also have to replace those 8mm bolts and nuts with 5/16's, the local > auto parts store was out of the 8mm. > > It keeps sprinkling out there and it looks like it wants rain > seriously, > so I guess I will wait until tomorrow to continue this shocking story. > > -graywolf > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

