Prowler V6

[Todd....!!]

Speakin of different size wrenches, anyone here ever heard of or used a
set a tools known as Met-Wrench?

The commercial makes them out to be some sorta SUPER wrenches, they
don't look like too high quality of metal was used to make em, to me
anyways...

Anyone?

LATER!

Todd....



G. Scott Ponton wrote:
> 
> There are four "standards" for fasteners. They relate to the thread pitch
> more than anything although there are several different "head" sizes. Mostly
> the Japanese/asian use 10, 12, 14, 17, 21, & 32. The europeon use 10, 13,
> 14, 17, 19, 21 and various larger sizes. Other than the English. They used
> to use what was called a Whitworth standard. These are the 3/8 bolts with
> the "15mm" heads. Actually they are 19/32. They also used 23/32 (i think it
> was.) I haven't seen those wrenches since my tools were stolen. You used to
> get them in every Craftman set up until about 1975.  You will also notice
> that most, nearly all, of the English bolts are a "fine" thread pitch. It
> isn't quite the same as SAE fine as the radius of the thread root is
> different and although you can use one on the other they ussually are a very
> tight fit and sometimes destroy the fasteners. Then of course you have SAE
> standard inch sizes and the famous SAE standard metric sizes. Other than the
> 15mm the 16 and 18 are so close to SAE 5/8 and 11/16 that many times you can
> use these sizes to remove them. Maybe had something to do with it at the
> start.
> 
> Just my .02$
> 
> Scott