I have a fairly complete Metric set. (Now that I think of it I've only owned one American car, and that was mostly metric).
Paul Stenquist wrote: > 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 >> > > > -- Entropy Seminar: The results of a five yeer studee ntu the sekend lw uf thurmodynamiks aand itz inevibl fxt hon shewb rt nslpn raq liot. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
