15 and 18 mm are used more in the US than the rest of the world.
Bill
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Metric is easy to ID by sight...
"Give me a 12mm." (I find that 9 times out of ten, it's a 12mm.) 8>)
If it looks much bigger, "give me the 14mm."
Of course, the 17mm is always too small and the 19mm is too big, and for
some reason, no metric set comes with an 18mm!
Eric P
"Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational
being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory." Ralph
Waldo Emerson
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