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Subject: Re: Wrench sizes?
From: ultra!ames!tc.fluke.COM!pwv@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Pat Vilbrandt)
Date: Mon, 7 May 90 17:18:56 PDT
> From: Roland Dudley <decwrl!decvax!mit-eddie!dtc.hp.com!cobra>
> 
> Some of you on the b-c list have already heard the story about my pet
> rabbit chewing up the flexible rubber line to my front disc calipers [...]

Don't know how I could have missed that!  ;-)

> [...]
> Much to my horror, I discovered that the bolts which attach the master 
> cylinder to the firewall aren't standard SAE.  [...]
> I measured the widths of the heads of two bolts I need wrenches
> for and got the following:  .531" and .624".  The first one is somewhere
> between an SAE 1/2 and 9/16" [...]

0.531" is 17/32nds.  What's non-standard about that?  ;-)

> The second one is a bit under 5/8".  

Not really.  5/8" is 0.625", so a standard" 5/8" spanner should suffice.

> Thanks for your help,
> 
> Roland Dudley
> cobra@hpcilsn.HP.COM

Don't know that it was helpful, but You're Welcome!

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