Common use for SAE 19/32 socket?

[Jim C.]

I occasionally run into 19/32" and 25/32" fasteners on old Delta woodworking machinery from the 1940s and 1950s.

Jim C.

 

[kenburkholz]

I have an old Snap On set with a 19/32" socket and,a Craftsman set with one. I have never used one at home, but at work, we used them all the time on old Rapistan conveyor systems. Ken.

 

[Farmall450]

My dad says he used one once, on a chisel plow or something like that, a long time ago.

 

[Wakefield]

Wright has 19/32,21/32,25/32,29/32,31/32 in 1/2" drive 12 point

 

[ibedayank]

 

[gtermini]

My South Bend 9" uses one on the steady rest to hold the top hinge down.

Greyson

 

[WWIIjeep]

I occasionally run into 19/32" and 25/32" fasteners on old Delta woodworking machinery from the 1940s and 1950s.

Jim C.

Yes. 19/32" was used for 5/16" heavy hex nuts and 25/32" was used for 7/16" heavy hex nuts. "Heavy hex" nuts were common in certain industrial applications.

IIRC, 19/32" also fits starter mounting bolts on older Chevy or Ford vehicles.

If you ever work on older machinery or vehicles, sooner or later you'll run into a 32nd inch size fastener somewhere, and that's why older socket sets from all of the major manufacturers had some of those sizes. I've got 32nd inch size sockets from Snap-On, Proto, S-K, Blackhawk, Craftsman and Williams.

 

[Murphy4570]

To my great consternation...I have discovered that this size is used on my wife's 1990 Mustang GT convertible. I have been replacing the rear lower control arms, and Ford used 19/32 bolts to secure the rear sway bar to the control arms. I work on just about everything, and this is the first time I've ever had to use this size... Maddening....

Nope, those bolts are metric. I own a 1990 LX 5.0 myself. Half of the bolts are standard, and half are metric on that car. Ford switched over incrementally from all SAE to all Metric on their cars starting in the 1980's, all the way into the early 2000's. The biggest holdovers were their old and obsolete powerplants that they eventually dropped for newer designs.

 

[nicksnothereman]

I'll be givin' that a try, I also have several around, never used them, thanks!

Not with a 12 point bro...don't do it!

(I did check a conversion chart)

 

[driverman67]

19/32 socket used on 70's and 80's model gm products on the crossmember support for the transmission.

 

[humber2]

My JIC (Just in Case) set I assembled but have never used, yet.



L to R, 1/2 Drive

31/32 marked Chrome Nickel, maybe Walden

29/32 Snap-on, date 1937

25/32 Walden Worcester, Chrome Nickel, Part# 225, 6point.

25/32 Stahlwille

21/32 Stahlwille

19/32 Stahlwille

13/32 Stahlwille

3/8 Drive items……

19/32 Britool

17/32 Britool

15/32 Britool

9/32 Walter Part# 1300, 6 point.

There are several sizes in 1/4 drive from 11/32 down not shown.

YMMV

 

[Wrench97]

19/32 nuts and bolts...15 years later and nobody came up with a answer?

 

[bonneyman]

Anyone have any idea on the 14/32, 17/32, 23/32 and 31/32 sockets I have?

I needed a 31/32" socket to remove a stubborn Delta faucet nut. Didn't have one, so took an old 15/16" and slowly dremeled out the broaching till I got it to 31/32". Worked like a dream, now store it in my plumbing box.

Additionally, I had trouble finding a 15mm Bonney for my set years ago. But then found several Bonney 19/32". Grabbed them and used them as 15mm till I found an actual one.

 

[Shelbylex]

Common use for SAW 19/32 socket?​

Simple: you post it in multiple threads on GJ!!!

- Buying thread
- brand thread
- this thread you are reading
- post your socket set up thread
- post your toolbox thread
.... Keep going!!! : )

 

[BlackVersa2]

I have a newer Heyco Germany 21/32 socket. Occasionally run into some Chinese hardware that's supposed to be 11/16.
17mm fits but is sloppy.
If you throw a pair of calipers on it, it's .656" which is exactly 21/32.

 

[Achilleus]

"Yep, looks like I'm gonna need the 97/128th socket for that'un"

From the Stahlwille engineer when the 3/4" just won't fit

 

[dscheidt]

19/32 nuts and bolts...15 years later and nobody came up with a answer?

19/32 is USS 5/16 heavy hex nuts. Obsolete since WWII, but pretty common on stuff older than that. and it hung around in some uses for a decade or two after the war.

 

[finn]

To my great consternation...I have discovered that this size is used on my wife's 1990 Mustang GT convertible. I have been replacing the rear lower control arms, and Ford used 19/32 bolts to secure the rear sway bar to the control arms. I work on just about everything, and this is the first time I've ever had to use this size... Maddening....

That’s 15mm, isn’t it?

 

[Hal]

Since nobody has mentioned it yet, before modern damaged bolt sockets were available, you could pound a 19/32 onto a buggered 5/8 nut to remove it.

 

[bobg03]

When I worked in industrial maintenance we used odd ball X/32" sizes of wrenches and sockets all the time. I believe they were Wright Tools.

 

[ibzepfan]

From my late father's Proto 1/2 drive set. They're still listed in my 1980 Proto catalog.

 

[Kscardsfan]

19/32 nuts and bolts...15 years later and nobody came up with a answer?

Pre war Ford products used a lot of them, so did the first Willy's Jeeps. Lots of old industrial and ag machinery uses them too. There are also a fair number of plumbing fittings that use them still. And since this is GJ, you just need to have them incase. Probably in duplicate.

 

[lardy1]

When I was a cub (later 60's) the axle nuts on my bicycle were 19/32. Dad had that size wrench so I thought nothing of it.

 

[Kscardsfan]

From my late father's Proto 1/2 drive set. They're still listed in my 1980 Proto catalog.

Still listed in todays most recent Proto catalog believe it or not.

 

[wolf_from_wv]

Probably in duplicate.

Shallow, mid-length, deep; shallow and deep broach...