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8ender posted:The Germans loving love 13mm and hipster fasteners like triple square and torx Not originally, basically everything from VW's aircooled era is 10mm.
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literally a fish posted:Ah yes, the perfect metric socket set. 23mm, 21mm, 19mm, 18mm, 17mm, 16mm, 15mm, 14mm, 13mm, 12mm, 12mm, 11mm, 10mm, 10mm, 10mm, 10mm, 10mm, 10mm, 10mm, 10mm, 10mm, 10mm, 9mm, 8mm, 6mm, 5mm Missing the 5.5mm. 
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Mar 8, 2016 02:05
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xzzy posted:Not originally, basically everything from VW's aircooled era is 10mm. There is a fair share of 13mm on my 72 beetle. And that one random 11mm for the distributor clamp (though I think originally that was 13mm too).
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I was beside a truck the other day and on the rear rotors you could see the silhouette of the vanes coming through the face of the rotor. He had been going metal on metal for a long time. I laughed to myself, I've seen them online and in the junkyard and at work (parts) but I've never seen one driving around. Then he started to creep forward at the light. The rotor didn't turn with the wheel 
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Mar 8, 2016 02:21
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Like how the gently caress does someone drive on poo poo like this, my brakes start making whumpa whumpa or other noises that I haven't heard they get a through the rim inspection then when I get home a wheel is coming off.
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Mar 8, 2016 02:36
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Splizwarf posted:Missing the 5.5mm. Get outta here Ford. No one likes you anyways.
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Mar 8, 2016 02:40
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tater_salad posted:Like how the gently caress does someone drive on poo poo like this, my brakes start making whumpa whumpa or other noises that I haven't heard they get a through the rim inspection then when I get home a wheel is coming off. I hear cars on i85 in Atlanta daily with brakes that I'm fairly sure are grinding on the caliper.
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Mar 8, 2016 02:41
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SouthsideSaint posted:Get outta here Ford. No one likes you anyways. Ford has a hard on for 18mm fasteners, which is missing from many socket and wrench sets. When a set has 19mm and 3/4 inch but no 18mm, I lose my poo poo.
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Mar 8, 2016 02:53
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Both of my Honda motorcycles can be stripped almost down to the ground with nothing but 8, 10, 12, 14 and 17mm wrenches and 4, 5, and 6mm hex keys. It's pretty nice.
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Aircooled vw can pretty much be taken down to nothing with 9,11,13,17,19 I think there were a few hexes on some of the tin.
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Mar 8, 2016 03:12
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SNiPER_Magnum posted:Ford has a hard on for 18mm fasteners, which is missing from many socket and wrench sets. When a set has 19mm and 3/4 inch but no 18mm, I lose my poo poo. No socket set I've ever purchased comes with 16mm or 18mm and I can't figure out why.
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Mar 8, 2016 03:15
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wildemere posted:I work for a Japanese measurement company and some of our instruments still have the old big round 5 & 7 pin DIN connectors for input/output functions. Like RS-232 or remote keyboard & setpoints. Ps2 connectors really are miniDIN, not just a close approximation. At least they aren't loving dsub connectors though. The footprint for DIN and miniDIN connectors is logical and well dimensioned by comparison.
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SNiPER_Magnum posted:Ford has a hard on for 18mm fasteners, which is missing from many socket and wrench sets. When a set has 19mm and 3/4 inch but no 18mm, I lose my poo poo. That is the number one reason I buy a lot of grey pneumatic. There sets are usually 7-19 and take a beating.
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Mar 8, 2016 03:28
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Geirskogul posted:No socket set I've ever purchased comes with 16mm or 18mm and I can't figure out why. 16mm is 5/8, so use one of those. Not sure what 18mm is, but maybe it's something else more common. E: Hm, no, it's between 11/16 and 3/4 (which is 19mm). Don't know what to tell you on that one.
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Mar 8, 2016 03:29
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Raluek posted:16mm is 5/8, so use one of those. Not sure what 18mm is, but maybe it's something else more common. 18 mm is between 45/64 and 23/32, so use one of those!
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tater_salad posted:Like how the gently caress does someone drive on poo poo like this, my brakes start making whumpa whumpa or other noises that I haven't heard they get a through the rim inspection then when I get home a wheel is coming off. Best I can come up with is they assume any new noise is from a pebble or some other debris getting stuck somewhere and if they keep driving it'll work itself out and the problem is solved. Or it's those greedy corporations trying to get people to spend money on unnecessary repairs and dang it they're gonna stick it to the man and show them it didn't work!
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Am I...missing an eyebrow?
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Uthor posted:18 mm is between 45/64 and 23/32, so use one of those! I laughed too hard at this.
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Uthor posted:18 mm is between 45/64 and 23/32, so use one of those! lol if you don't have a 91/128 socket
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Mar 8, 2016 04:36
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Socket chat    
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H110Hawk posted:Socket chat  How fast did everyone move when that thing gave way?When we were putting the lift up at my buddy's shop, something went wrong and it started to tip. One second there were three guys standing around, the next there was nobody, but you could hear one dudes giggling coming from somewhere in the ringing aftermath.
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Oh boy, was the inevitable customer melt down where they yell how you guys destroyed their perfectly good truck and it didn't have a spec of rust when it came in and now YOU personally owe them a new truck as funny in reality as it is in my head?
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SNiPER_Magnum posted:Ford has a hard on for 18mm fasteners, which is missing from many socket and wrench sets. When a set has 19mm and 3/4 inch but no 18mm, I lose my poo poo. I bought a Kobalt socket set because I was pretty broke but not HF broke, and it skips 11mm on the 12 point deep 3/8" and 1/2" drive. That's very close to 1/2", but it's not worth the chance when the poo poo has been bolted together for fifteen years and has seen some time near the gulf coast. Also, that pile of sockets is some monkey-hand bs. The last time I got rid of a bunch of poo poo tools my crackhead mother thinks I need, I started breaking ratchets and sockets doing normal work. She dove a few dumpsters or something and brought home another shitpile of sockets and my tools stopped breaking. Edit: if you don't inspect Toyota frames before putting them on a lift, you kinda deserve the headache. At least that crapcan is dead and no one had to get sardined. EightBit fucked around with this message at 06:16 on Mar 8, 2016 |
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H110Hawk posted:Socket chat And Washington state rarely uses salt on the roads too 
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literally a fish posted:Ah yes, the perfect metric socket set. 23mm, 21mm, 19mm, 18mm, 17mm, 16mm, 15mm, 14mm, 13mm, 12mm, 12mm, 11mm, 10mm, 10mm, 10mm, 10mm, 10mm, 10mm, 10mm, 10mm, 10mm, 10mm, 9mm, 8mm, 6mm, 5mm Some chucklefuck decided most of the interior bits on my car need to be attached with screws with a 7mm head. 
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a rowdy mullet posted:And Washington state rarely uses salt on the roads too I think there was a recall on that exact model of truck for frame rust. So I guess you send a photo off to Toyota corporate and ask them to pick up the corpse.
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8ender posted:I think there was a recall on that exact model of truck for frame rust. So I guess you send a photo off to Toyota corporate and ask them to pick up the corpse. Unless you have a lift kit or other "evidence of off-road use"
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EightBit posted:it skips 11mm on the 12 point deep 3/8" and 1/2" drive. That's very close to 1/2" 13mm, surely?
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Geirskogul posted:Unless you have a lift kit or other "evidence of off-road use" Then again I guess the majority of their customers never do.
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My kingdom for a thin wall ratcheting 16mm spanner
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Raluek posted:13mm, surely? 13mm is just over and 12mm is just under; 1/2" is workable on an 11mm bolt head, but I'd rather not risk rounding poo poo off.
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Cakefool posted:My kingdom for a thin wall ratcheting 16mm spanner How thin? I really like my Snap-On 14mm. E: Wait, this isn't the tools thread
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This is the bitching about tools thread.
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Raluek posted:13mm, surely? 7/16th is very close to 11mm
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SouthsideSaint posted:7/16th is very close to 11mm close enough that people will argue to the death that jeep CPS bolts are 7/16... even though they have a metric thread. Also, did that taco pass its state safety inspection? 
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Collateral Damage posted:"Here have a 4x4 pickup, but if you take it off road your warranty is void." I'm pretty sure they just want to not replace the frames on trail rigs.
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tater_salad posted:Aircooled vw can pretty much be taken down to nothing with Gotta keep a 32mm around too for the gland nut and the axle bolts. One thing I always thought was nifty was on stuff where you have to use 2 wrenches, VW was nice enough to make the bolt and nut 2 different sizes, so as to not require you to have 2 17mm or 19mm wrenches.
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Tools are great, but they're better when used for correcting failures. liiike heater cores.   Bonus of buying a vehicle that hasn't been driven much in the past 10 years.  bonus of buying a ranch truck that wasn't driven much in the past 10 years.  
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