Monday, October 19, 2020

Heh

 


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  1. My brothers and I are pure MOPAR. I can't tell how many times I have had to replace 9/16 and 5/8. Thieving scoundrels!
    (one could pretty much disassemble a Dodge with just those two sizes plus a 1/2".)

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  2. Those 3 wrenches could assemble/disassemble just about everything circa 1970.
    Remember when you could open your air cleaner with just a wing nut?
    To open the air cleaner on my wife's car requires 1 imperial and 2 metric wrenches and a screw driver.

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    1. Yup, a wing-nut was all it took to remove the cleaner on my 62 Ford's 4 bbl. Hell, I remember when air-cleaners used oil.

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  3. My wife was highly disappointed on our wedding night when she saw my 10mm......

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  4. Hi C.W.,
    Funny thing you should mention that about the "10 mm!!" As I recall the old '65 Volkswagon van I had 10mm nutz and bolts (4) ea. to hold the engine to the Clutch housing!! 'Could drop the engine in 10 minutes!!!
    "If no other wrench you have in your tool box will fit "That!!" nut, it's a "10mm!!!!!"
    skybill

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  5. I've had several cars and a lawn tractor that were mixed metric and imperial. I believe that there is special place in a real hot corner of hell for whoever decided that such an abomination should exist. I do not believe I can be held responsible for the foul utterances or far flung wrenches that may have occurred in such cases.

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    1. Yeah, the mid-70s were bad for that.
      Who decided that this was a good idea ?

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    2. This mix of hardware came about when vehicles were required to be manufactured in metric, but legacy sub-assemblies were allowed to continue in their original specs. You would not believe the problems that can occur when attempting to convert a part or assembly from one measurement system to another. Sounds simple, but real world attempts have failed quite often. Actually, they fail more often than they succeed.

      Original British Norton Commandos built 1968-76 had (at least) 3 different hardware formats: metric, ASE, and Whitworth. Whitworth was one of ~6 British formats that competed with each other. IIRC, most disappeared by then, but ISTR that there was one other still hanging around along with Whitworth. Annoying to have to buy tools and threading gear in 3 different formats, just to work on one country's vehicles. Whitworth mostly was internal to the engine and trans of the British stuff.

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  6. I have a few classic Mercedes. I keep extra 10mm sockets in each car's glove box, along with my asthma inhalers. learned years ago to flood my environment with these life-saving tools. The rescue inhalers are important too.

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  7. Yeah, that shit ain't happening here. Bad choice in wife. If you're letting a girlfriend do it you are dumber than her.

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