[Shop-talk] Metric wrenches

[Patton Dickson]

I used a 17mm on my BMW starter last week.


On May 27, 2011, at 9:48 PM, Darrell Walker <darrellw at ipns.com> wrote:

> I recently added a TR8 to the fleet, and needed to expand my set of metric
> tools (though the 8 still has a lot of inch hardware).
>
> Anyway, I bought two sets of end wrenches and a set of 1/2" drive sockets.
> Each of the sets has sizes at every millimeter (i.e. 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 ....
> mm).
>
> But so far, aside from one brake line fitting that seemed to be 10mm, every
> other fastener is an odd size.  Am I ever going to need the even sized
> wrenches?