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Indian wrench humor?
« on: March 18, 2008, 02:37:51 AM »
I used one of the wrenches from the tool kit today.

It's interesting to note that the sizes cast on the wrenches (and there's so many of them!) have absolutely nothing to do with the real size of the wrench...

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Re: Indian wrench humor?
« Reply #1 on: March 18, 2008, 02:56:27 AM »
Unless you have used British Standard Whitworth wrenches.






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Re: Indian wrench humor?
« Reply #2 on: March 18, 2008, 08:07:04 PM »
All the nuts and bolts are BSF or Whit.

This menas you don;t have a tap or dye or wrench in your home that will be of much use so don;t strip or damage anything.
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Re: Indian wrench humor?
« Reply #3 on: March 19, 2008, 12:04:21 AM »
Its late here so i am off to make use of a British standard wench :-*

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Re: Indian wrench humor?
« Reply #4 on: March 19, 2008, 01:11:19 AM »
A metric crescent wrench might fit.
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Re: Indian wrench humor?
« Reply #5 on: March 19, 2008, 01:44:11 AM »
When your favorit tool is a hammer every problem looks like a nail.
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Re: Indian wrench humor?
« Reply #6 on: March 19, 2008, 02:57:28 PM »
I used one of the wrenches from the tool kit today.
It's interesting to note that the sizes cast on the wrenches (and there's so many of them!) have absolutely nothing to do with the real size of the wrench...
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I don't know about the british sizes, but when I saw the american sizes, I had a good laugh. What was really funny was that my american and metric wrenches fit much better than any of the wrenched that came with it. I am thinking about mounting them in a frame as a showpiece. Not quite sure what I would show them as though.
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Re: Indian wrench humor?
« Reply #7 on: March 20, 2008, 12:36:56 AM »
And let me guess everyone here has Venus brand wrenches right?

Most sizes you can improvise Metric or AN. You only get in trouble around 7/16 BSF for example and thats the Petteroid rod bolts
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Re: Indian wrench humor?
« Reply #8 on: March 21, 2008, 10:56:50 PM »
6 point wrenches/sockets give you a little more leeway when improvising.  I'm getting to the point that I wont buy 12 points anymore.  If faced with a square head bolt, I use my metric crescent.
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Re: Indian wrench humor?
« Reply #9 on: March 21, 2008, 11:57:06 PM »
And let me guess everyone here has Venus brand wrenches right?

Most sizes you can improvise Metric or AN. You only get in trouble around 7/16 BSF for example and thats the Petteroid rod bolts

Doug,

When I had the rod and piston out of my real Petter PJ-1,  I had no trouble finding a socket to fit the rod bolt nuts properly.  I think it was a standard metric socket size.

Those totally bizarre English wrench sizes are probably why Canada had so much trouble with the used submarines we bought from them.
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Re: Indian wrench humor?
« Reply #10 on: March 22, 2008, 01:23:30 AM »

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Re: Indian wrench humor?
« Reply #11 on: March 22, 2008, 01:48:19 AM »
They were not submarines when we sold them. ;D

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« Reply #12 on: March 22, 2008, 04:44:02 PM »
The Subs he is refering to were the Victoria class.....
I'm not impressed.

We needed a replacement for our aging Oberons
They were very good submarines that exceeded they're projected service life.


Yes you need a propor Whitworth socket for the rod, everything is is negotiable

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Re: Indian wrench humor?
« Reply #13 on: March 22, 2008, 11:01:07 PM »
I remember years ago in the news about a fire onboard a sub that was going from the Uk to Canada.Was this one of the Victoria class ?

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Re: Indian wrench humor?
« Reply #14 on: March 22, 2008, 11:45:37 PM »
Just remember that Whitworth and Bs torque specs are the easiest in the world.

Simply tighten it up until it strips then back it off half a turn.    This is especially true of the little banjo unions that are so popular on fuel and oil lines.

However, before anyone climbs all over me for criticizing the English, they had the decency to fit all their Ferguson tractors and many other machines with SAE bolt heads and threads before shipping them to North America.  Decent chaps, all.

Now if anyone fancies a warm beer, I will go to my Lucas refrigerator.    Rule Brittania..... dp