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9mm wrench/socket size. Any use at all?

mtkst19

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great, ill pick it up then.

there is no winning when it comes to buying **** for europeans. just had to get a t-60 long torx for bmw flywheels. never ending cycle.
 
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Jamie's head

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Looking over and cleaning up my tools the other day and noticed that all of my 9mm wrenches/sockets have had zero use. I've worked on alot of domestic and asian stuff and never have found a use. Is this a european thing or am I the only one wondering why they ever bother to make this size at all?
I've only used it 9 mm wrench in one application throughout my entire life of many different careers. Tuning a resonator for a fast axial flow carbon dioxide laser. PRC laser corporation
 

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Looking over and cleaning up my tools the other day and noticed that all of my 9mm wrenches/sockets have had zero use. I've worked on alot of domestic and asian stuff and never have found a use. Is this a european thing or am I the only one wondering why they ever bother to make this size at all?
 

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The only reason why I registered to this forum is because it's because my late great friend Junior passed on and I'm proud to use his them and think about him all the time. So I grab a 15 mm off the board to break a bolt loose on a 2008 Cadillac Escalade intermediate shaft and I noticed that there's a hairline crack in a ratchet wrench. So then I inspect all my other wrenches and see that my 9 mm has never been used The anodized coding is as black as it was the day it was bought and in my entire life the only experience I've ever had using a 9 mm wrenches when I repaired industrial laser equipment and found it so odd when I got that job why would they use a 9 mm in any event I spent the last 20 minutes on Google what the hell's in 9 mm wrench used for and I came up with bicycle derailers and some Australian parts so now I know of three things the wrench can be used for
 

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Wow 13 year old post.


9mm is used a bit on old central European motorcycles. NSU, DKW, Zündapp... Also Puch and Jawa. They're rare but they do exist. I think some clutch/brake cable adjusters on old bikes use this size too.

11mm is standard for M7 screws. M7 screws are not common, but sometimes it's just the right size (a lot stronger than M6 witohut being as coarse of a thread as a standard M8).

9 and 11 mm may also be used by engineers to prevent servicing stuff that isn't meant to be serviced. Not sure on which bike, but I am certain there was some (Puch maybe) that used an 11mm screw for the oil level. You'd remove the oil level screw and fill up until it pours out. Other screws were typically 10mm so you'd need a different wrench for those and that prevented the owner from doing something that was not needed.

Or, standard German M8 hex size is 13mm, but back in the day they often used fine threaded and higher grade fasteners for mounting the engine (DKW, Puch, probably also others...). Those typically had a 14mm head instead.
 
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chris142

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All my 9 mm stuff are virgins too. I heard that air cooled Volkswagens had bolts with 9 mm heads. I've never had the misfortune of working on one of those.
 
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