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I always end up buying some of the missing ones!
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22mm is another common size - I only use 20mm on one type of french car oil drain plug.
Twinset spanners i think theyre called
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I've got a Wera Joker combination set here, and it's got the 15, 16 & 18 - but doesn't go up to 20mm.
Wera decided to miss out the 9mm - just to be different, maybe?
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Wera decided to miss out the 9mm - just to be different, maybe?
All the Best,
CJ
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Most decent brands will do a full range in every size - but you will probably end up buying a couple of individuals to fill in their sets as they tend to just stick common sizes for the standard metric fasteners.
Sometimes I've found it cheaper to buy some of the odd ball sets on sale and the get the individuals to match to bring it up to a full set rather than a full set of 8 - 32.
Sometimes I've found it cheaper to buy some of the odd ball sets on sale and the get the individuals to match to bring it up to a full set rather than a full set of 8 - 32.
Yep, me too, I want a set of spanners that would fit the smallest and largest nuts that were ever made. Lol
I've always known them as combination spanners.
This is a twin set
Thought a combination spanner was just a standard open end and ring the other end?
This is what i mean do you call this a combination set?
I always thought/assumed this was a left over from when a set of spanners was half metric and half imperial... I thought/assumed that the missing metric spanners had imperial equivalents... so they didn't bother putting in two the same size?
I'm a bit young (just) for imperial buts and bolts... but I can remember as a kid working with my dad and not being able to find the right spanner... I'd be looking for a 14mm and he's tell me to use a 9/16 (or whatever it was)
I'm a bit young (just) for imperial buts and bolts... but I can remember as a kid working with my dad and not being able to find the right spanner... I'd be looking for a 14mm and he's tell me to use a 9/16 (or whatever it was)
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Sorry, I didn't follow what you were saying, I seem to have missed the part about "a different size at each end."
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Even that set is missing the 29mm. Ask anyone who has ever worked on an Isuzu 3.0 diesel engine if they need the 29mm.
It's the same with Allen keys. Pretty much all the sets I have seen go .....5, 6, 7, 8, 10. No 9mm for some reason. Then go look at Jag brake calipers, yep, you need the 9mm allen key to change the pads. Single 9mm can be bought now more easily but I had to go to the Snap On man with jar of vaseline in hand. £22 for one 3/8 drive socket based Allen key.
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There had to be one!Even that set is missing the 29mm. Ask anyone who has ever worked on an Isuzu 3.0 diesel engine if they need the 29mm.
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It's the same with Allen keys. Pretty much all the sets I have seen go .....5, 6, 7, 8, 10. No 9mm for some reason. Then go look at Jag brake calipers, yep, you need the 9mm allen key to change the pads. Single 9mm can be bought now more easily but I had to go to the Snap On man with jar of vaseline in hand. £22 for one 3/8 drive socket based Allen key.
I just buy odd ball sizes as & when
Otherwise you end up with new tools that never get used
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The new cam chain tensioner bolt on my BMW bike has a 15mm head on it, and finding a spanner that size in my copious piles of spanners took longer than doing the actual tensioner swap. Plus, the bolt is in a really, really awkward place to get to.
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I’m the opposite - I seem to have loads of 15mm spanner’s and have never needed one, but they are somehow always on top of the pile when I’m looking
