Snap-On manufacturing error

[rmack898]

I have had this SO ratcheting box wrench in the back of my tool box for about 20 years. These wrenches a big and bulky and almost never fit in the tight space that you need them for in the first place.

While putting a new bumper on my truck today a grabbed this wrench from the back of the drawer as being 6-point is was perfect for this long bolt that was in a blind place and had to be removed by "feel". This wrench would not fit on the head of a bolt that was 15mm across the flats.

I later measured the wrench and while it is marked 14mm and 15mm, it is actually a 17mm and 18mm wrench.

 

[WWheeler]

Are you sure you weren't measuring in **** millimeters?
**** millimeters, like **** inches, are not as long as regular millimeters.

 

[d.mcfarland]

Tell your driver and use the warranty. Simple.

Not sure how you have a well used tool but never knew the size issue was present.

 

[Ole Slewfoot]

Those things are so awkward and clunky they are almost never well used, and Snap On didnt make it, its a badge engineered A&E Maufacturing product.

 

[stonesg]

Electro pencil the real sizes on it and press on.

 

[rmack898]

Those things are so awkward and clunky they are almost never well used, .

That's why it sat in the back of drawer in my box for almost 20 years.

 

[Wamsutta]

I have one of those in 3/8" x 7/16" that's the extreme opposite of clunky. It's very precise and refined.

 

[KnurledNut]

I later measured the wrench and while it is marked 14mm and 15mm, it is actually a 17mm and 18mm wrench.

Something doesnt add up. They never made a 17/18.