I enjoy reading this forum. I suspect 80% of the members are far more skilled. But on a recent fuel line on a German car I got a bit irratated. With all my effort to organize, inventory, document my father's tools and mine, I was missing a needed tool. Had to go to the SAE to metric conversion and find an SAE that would suit. And it was a "field project" so that meant an extra trip home. Sigh.
My father always had Craftsman or SK. Hobby mechanic raised in the depression so you did your own work if at all possible. Heavy to SAE but some metric. I dug out the emergency metric box and found his stash of Metric open ends. I am flirting with eBay buyers to complete the range. Is this a fools mission? Just buy HF? Ikon 14 stops at 19mm. Pittsburg goes 22mm skip to 25mm, also 14 pcs. Or, shop eBay to complete the set? Note, my research shows there is no 8mm in this range so use 5/16". My open end set drifts between no part number, to V, to VV. JHD is my Dad who got me into vintage cars. I have needed 21, 22, 24 and SAE works.
Further, I use this cheat sheet to ensure I can't reverse engineer to an SAE that I own. All seems bass ackward but it is how what I am doing. HF does not go up to the larger mm. I use a beautiful $5 1 1/16" SK wrench for 27mm. One time use. I figure the two missing wrenches will run $25/each if not patient. $15/ea if patient.
Pink 32 is hint I need to go into the random box as I don't hang them. Part of the legacy tools from JHD.
My father always had Craftsman or SK. Hobby mechanic raised in the depression so you did your own work if at all possible. Heavy to SAE but some metric. I dug out the emergency metric box and found his stash of Metric open ends. I am flirting with eBay buyers to complete the range. Is this a fools mission? Just buy HF? Ikon 14 stops at 19mm. Pittsburg goes 22mm skip to 25mm, also 14 pcs. Or, shop eBay to complete the set? Note, my research shows there is no 8mm in this range so use 5/16". My open end set drifts between no part number, to V, to VV. JHD is my Dad who got me into vintage cars. I have needed 21, 22, 24 and SAE works.
Further, I use this cheat sheet to ensure I can't reverse engineer to an SAE that I own. All seems bass ackward but it is how what I am doing. HF does not go up to the larger mm. I use a beautiful $5 1 1/16" SK wrench for 27mm. One time use. I figure the two missing wrenches will run $25/each if not patient. $15/ea if patient.
Pink 32 is hint I need to go into the random box as I don't hang them. Part of the legacy tools from JHD.