Why do wrench sets have missing sizes?!

[msharley]

16 and 18 are often skipped. Makes me mad too, as they are needed, I didn't think 20mm was often used, what are you needing a 20mm for?

Four Letters...

FORD!

 

[WillRead]

Four Letters...

FORD!

And BMW, FCA, GM, Nissan and VAG

 

[WWheeler]

Even the 10mm?

lol, never had a problem losing wrenches of any size, but 10mm sockets, that's another story. It's crazy how easy they are to lose track of and how much time I've spent looking for one before giving up.

 

[matthew]

Old thread... but I can’t help but add, how are muffler bearings talked about and nobody tells anyone to go look up Turboencabulators...

 

[RonnieC]

I’m leaving a note on my calendar to revive this thread in 2035.

 

[msharley]

I’m leaving a note on my calendar to revive this thread in 2035.

Why? Expect to find that 10mm?

 

[VolvoRyan]

20mm pops up in weird places. You can't quite eyeball some weird nut, so you grab the 19 and 21. One's too loose, the other no-goes.... you grab a 20mm, and start to question the universe.

-Ryan

 

[mikedodge]

I just took this pic for another post and saw my Proto set has 20 and some of the other ones that people said are usually skipped but it's missing 23 and 10.

 

[bubinga]

I just took this pic for another post and saw my Proto set has 20 and some of the other ones that people said are usually skipped but it's missing 23 and 10.

WOW, CRAZY MISSING THE 10.

 

[toyotadriver]

I had to add some wrenches to the Husky sets I bought. My Polaris RZR has a couple of the less common sizes for various things so I had to add some of the less common sizes. Vehicles today are better than they used to be about having standardized sizes but random odd sizes pop up every so often.

 

[silkman]

If you have the rare socket you'll probably never need the wrench. I have a 20mm stanley socket and a 20mm combination wrench that I'll never probably use. Now time to get that double 20x23 open end wrench for extra uselessness except posting it on the GJ show your new tool arrivals thread.

 

[Sumboodie]

3/4" shouldn't fit a 20mm head, it's .037" too small.
19mm is .748"... 3/4"

SOME are the same asheadheir SAE equivalent. Like the 3/4" will work on a 20mm. Not perfect, but damn close. Still, I have filled in the missing ones, when needed and ticks me off when I have to as well.
SAE to Metric Conversion

 

[Sumboodie]

2008 was 9 years ago?

Time sure flies.

Seems like barely even 9!

 

[boom_bap]

20mm on a Chevy fuel filter every 10k miles.

 

[DAustin]

A lot of Your-A-Pee-N sets don't put in a 12mm. And if you do any work on Japanese cars or Bikes you will be lost without one.

 

[finn]

Groundhog Day?

 

[VolvoRyan]

A lot of Your-A-Pee-N sets don't put in a 12mm. And if you do any work on Japanese cars or Bikes you will be lost without one.

Was at the PnP last week and used the 12mm a bunch on an ol' 940. All the sizes no one ever uses seem to pop up on the Swedish cars. DIN/JIS be damned.

-Ryan

 

[bubinga]

3/4" shouldn't fit a 20mm head, it's .037" too small.
19mm is .748"... 3/4"

He must have meant it the other way around

A lot of Your-A-Pee-N sets don't put in a 12mm. And if you do any work on Japanese cars or Bikes you will be lost without one.

Yes, and Honda don't use 13 mm.
They'll use a 12 mm head, on an 8 mm bolt.

 

[Firebrick43]

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[jayemm]

Yeah, but you're talking about a snap-on set - that's a whole different animal, pricewise.

You can get a SK 6mm-24mm set at tooltopia for $163.

I don't know what it would cost to put together a cman pro / snap-on 6-24mm set, but I bet it'd be a lot more than that.

+1 on SK sets with no missing sizes, at least in the smaller sets where others omit certain sizes

 

[Meursault74]

Anybody remember Metrinch?

Are you related to jimmynumbers?