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Box:

A 14 ml wrench is just a 9/16th by any other name.

...as a fourteen.milliliter wrench! :-)

And no, it isn't -- one of them is smaller, and won't fit on screws of the other's dimension; used the other way, the larger wrench will often slip and ruin the shape of the bolt-head. (No, I can't recall which is bigger and which smaller.)

Using a 13-mm wrench on half-inch (=12.7 mm) bolt-heads works better; there's less slippage there. (So I'd guess the difference between 9/16" and 14 mm is more than 0.3 mm.)

"I use volume measures all the time. (At least in Swedish, we even have archaic-sounding nicknames like "teaspoon" for a 5-milliliter measure.)"
proof that the metric system is so awful that you use the archaic terms to describe the new measurements.

No, just that we use old-fashioned shorthand to *refer* to our _superior_[*] measures.

Is it a quart or a litre? who the fsck cares while your swigging it down?

I do -- and according to Andrew, the liter is obviously superior! ;^)

[*]: Because they're _standardized_ -- how big is *your* "teaspoon"? Is that the same size as Andrew's? Or as the guy's who wrote the cookbook...?

Post #45,753 by boxley 7/16/02 9:18:04 AM Reply	Thread is the word you are looking for and also "I use volume measures all the time. (At least in Swedish, we even have archaic-sounding nicknames like "teaspoon" for a 5-milliliter measure.)" proof that the metric system is so awful that you use the archaic terms to describe the new measurements. Is it a quart or a litre? who the fsck cares while your swigging it down? A 14 ml wrench is just a 9/16th by any other name. thanx, bill ."Once, in the wilds of Afghanistan, I had to subsist on food and water for several weeks." W.C. Fields
Post #45,755 by CRConrad 7/16/02 9:29:51 AM Reply	There ain't no such thing... Box: A 14 ml wrench is just a 9/16th by any other name. ...as a fourteen.milliliter wrench! :-) And no, it isn't -- one of them is smaller, and won't fit on screws of the other's dimension; used the other way, the larger wrench will often slip and ruin the shape of the bolt-head. (No, I can't recall which is bigger and which smaller.) Using a 13-mm wrench on half-inch (=12.7 mm) bolt-heads works better; there's less slippage there. (So I'd guess the difference between 9/16" and 14 mm is more than 0.3 mm.) "I use volume measures all the time. (At least in Swedish, we even have archaic-sounding nicknames like "teaspoon" for a 5-milliliter measure.)" proof that the metric system is so awful that you use the archaic terms to describe the new measurements. No, just that we use old-fashioned shorthand to refer to our _superior_[] measures. Is it a quart or a litre? who the fsck cares while your swigging it down? I do -- and according to Andrew, the liter is obviously superior! ;^) []: Because they're _standardized_ -- how big is your "teaspoon"? Is that the same size as Andrew's? Or as the guy's who wrote the cookbook...? Christian R. Conrad Microsoft is a true reflection of Bill Gates' personality - the sleaziest, most unethical, ugliest little rat's ass the world has seen unto this time. -- [link\|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=42971\|Andrew Grygus]
Post #45,757 by Andrew Grygus 7/16/02 9:30:51 AM Reply	Hey box . . . . . what proof is a 14 ml wrench? Screwdrives I know, but wrench? [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #45,767 by boxley 7/16/02 11:06:34 AM Reply	Simple the kids have disappeared all the 9/16 wrenches So when I work on my ride the 14mm works just fine. I just dont tell them its the same. thanx, bill ."Once, in the wilds of Afghanistan, I had to subsist on food and water for several weeks." W.C. Fields
Post #45,770 by drewk 7/16/02 11:21:50 AM Reply	Hint: what else does "proof" mean === Microsoft offers them the one thing most business people will pay any price for - the ability to say "we had no choice - everyone's doing it that way." -- [link\|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=38978\|Andrew Grygus]
Post #45,772 by boxley 7/16/02 11:25:14 AM Reply	note the mm in the post as opposed to ml ."Once, in the wilds of Afghanistan, I had to subsist on food and water for several weeks." W.C. Fields
Post #45,801 by CRConrad 7/16/02 3:59:33 PM Reply	Missed your "Subject:" before - thread, of course, thanks!

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