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Re: Tool for a loved one

To: Neil Sherry <sherry@invention-machine.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Tool for a loved one
From: Art Pfenninger <ch155@freenet.buffalo.edu>
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 13:32:31 -0500 (EST)
Now that you mention it I think I found 12 point inside the B engine. So I
guess I can't say I have never seen a 12 point nut or bolt! But I still
stick to my original statement and that is throw out your 12 point
sockets. For the most part don't reach for your 1/2 drive ones either. 3/8
6 point will take care of 99% of all your work. I/2 " are needed about as
often as 1/4 inch.
...Art

On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, Neil Sherry wrote:

> Try looking inside a Leyland A-series (Mini, Midget etc). Big end cap nuts
> (rod ends)
> are 12 point, 1/2 inch.
> Neil
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Art Pfenninger <ch155@freenet.buffalo.edu>
> To: Mark J Bradakis <mjb@spitfire.cs.utah.edu>
> Cc: shop-talk@autox.team.net <shop-talk@autox.team.net>
> Date: Thursday, November 25, 1999 1:08 AM
> Subject: Re: Tool for a loved one
> 
> 
> >
> >Mark, in over 30 years I have never seen a 12 point fastener, once an 8
> >but that's it. Where are they used? This is not meant as a jabe I really
> >would like to know.
> >...Art
> >
> >On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Mark J Bradakis wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >>     this is one of the best reasons to buy a fine tooth ratchet--they
> make
> >>     12-point sockets obsolete.
> >>
> >> As soon as there are no longer any 12 point fasteners on the face of the
> >> earth, THEN 12 point sockets will be obsolete.
> >>
> >> mjb.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
> 


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