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NEVER say never! 120-130

posted by  Ron Kwas on  Tue Nov 30 11:04 CST 2004
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Mike;

It's spelled W H I T L E S S, and that's what I kinda figured...but since I don't have any of those tools (and am not going to even consider getting any...EVER!), and they sure-as-hell didn't fit SAE wrenches decently, I tried my metrics...and lookie here, the 18 and 15mm wrenches fit perfectly...so that's what I'll (continue) to call them.

Incedentally, according to what Carroll Smith says in "Engineer to Win", the Whitworth THREAD is supposed to be the super groovy, low stress riser design...well good for him and my compliments for trying to make things better...but why did Mr. Whitworth find it necessary to make the so equipped fasteners have a whole new set of wierd-ass wrench sizes? Aren't SAE and metric enough?

Cheers






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