Mislabel a 10mm?

[Lucid Moments]

So hear me out. do y'all think we can get one of our vendors to make some 10mm sockets and/or wrenches intentionally labeled as 3/8"? That way the garage/shop gremlins will overlook them and we can always find our 10mm's?

 

[Robbie B]

I can’t say that this is a bad idea.[emoji1303]

 

[Al Borland]

Or, you could stop working on Globalist Metric **** and get yourself some good old made-in-U.S. of A. stuff to work on. Real Stuff, with fasteners measured in SAE Freedom Units, 'cause 'Murica!!!

 

[mikebaker1129]

Love this idea maybe SK would be interested ?

 

[Voi]

I lost my 3/8" ratcheting wrench recently. Be careful what you wish for.

 

[GraySkies]

I always have a few extra rounds of 10mm rolling around in the center console of the truck...

 

[JRC3]

Went digging through my big box of extra sockets last year taking a little informal inventory and found these.

https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?p=7832158&highlight=10mm#post7832158

Not sure how many 3/8" sockets I have in there...Those 10mm are 3/8" drive.

 

[Y00PER]

Label it 25/64". I don't know how tight tolerances are, but how close were 13/32 sockets to 10mm? Maybe they could just make those again

 

[BFBOB]

Dremel is your friend

 

[Y00PER]

Love this idea maybe SK would be interested ?

They do have a 6.3mms socket (=1/4"), so maybe

 

[strutaeng]

I pulled the engine of my 99 Silverado and contemplated removing the front crossmember. It looked gunky, but was like, what the ****, that's more work.

Finally got in there and removed it, since it's just 2 bolts each side.

Well, that thing is like a black hole for tools. Found a 10 mm craftsman socket I had lost about 2 years ago. I know that was mine...my craftsman set has a 10 mm Husky socket.

But then I found a 10 mm ratcheting wrench from Blue Point. I know that was not mine. I have to ask my mechanic if he lost one of them.

I felt like I hit the lottery that day. Wanted to either start pulling more parts off the truck or buying lottery tickets...and I don't even buy tickets cause I don't believe in luck, cause I don't have good luck, lol.

 

[ecotec]

In addition to the 10mm sockets, in sets, in my socket drawer (a LOT of sets), I have a tray of just 10mm sockets. It is an old Mac sheet metal 3/8” socket set tray that I filled with 10mm spares (around 20 including 1/4” and 3/8”, shallow, deep, shallow impact, deep impact, swivel...).

I beat the gremlins with quantity. Having said that, I have not lost a socket in a while, and the last one I lost was a SO 21mm. The 10mm gremlins have given up on me.

 

[Ton ton]

I did lose an adjustable wrench in the poultry house. It was a wide mouth snap on too. I heard it going clink clink when I was cleaning out. I stopped briefly and tried looking for it but I came up empty.

 

[Alfisti]

Let's think outside the box, why bother with 3/8" when what we really need is 5/16" Whitworth. Some of the greatest engines ever made used Whitworth

 

[Lucid Moments]

Let's think outside the box, why bother with 3/8" when what we really need is 5/16" Whitworth. Some of the greatest engines ever made used Whitworth

Yea, but they were mostly steam

 

[Alfisti]

Actually I was thinking of the Rolls Royce Merlin engine that powered the Spitfire, p51 Mustang, Lancaster bomber and the Mosquito.

 

[Semi-hole mechanic]

I pulled the engine of my 99 Silverado and contemplated removing the front crossmember. It looked gunky, but was like, what the ****, that's more work.

Finally got in there and removed it, since it's just 2 bolts each side.

Well, that thing is like a black hole for tools. Found a 10 mm craftsman socket I had lost about 2 years ago. I know that was mine...my craftsman set has a 10 mm Husky socket.

But then I found a 10 mm ratcheting wrench from Blue Point. I know that was not mine. I have to ask my mechanic if he lost one of them.

I felt like I hit the lottery that day. Wanted to either start pulling more parts off the truck or buying lottery tickets...and I don't even buy tickets cause I don't believe in luck, cause I don't have good luck, lol.

I removed the front bumper cover on the GF's Liberty and found a german made 6" crescent wrench that I lost 3 years ago. That Jeep has had probably 50,000 miles put on it with that wrench riding up under the bumper. I've soaked it in PB Blaster and it is still rusted tight. Iwonder how many other tools that Ive lost were actually just out of sight.