My dumb question re 10mm

2510Paul · Dec 20, 2018

Would someone educate me on what is the big deal with 10mm sockets. It sounds like many people have a lot of them, and the earth stops rotating if one is lost. Ha, Ha, Ha.

Paul

JRSutton · Dec 20, 2018

It's just that they're so commonly used that, of all the sockets in a set that are likely to be forgotten out somewhere, the 10mm is a very likely culprit. Even more so because they're small and easy to overlook.

Depends on what you tend to work on of course.

rustyfarmall · Dec 20, 2018

I have a couple 10mm sockets. They don't get lost because I haven't used them since I quit messing around with Japanese dirt bikes.

What stops the world from turning is when my 1/2" and 9/16" stubby combo wrenches go missing.

Mark-Ia · Dec 20, 2018

Many of the fasteners on newer vehicles, ect. are 10mm.

TractormanNC · Dec 20, 2018

And besides all that NOTHING SAE will work. There is usually a SAE wrench that will work on any metric bolt or nut. 1/2 works for 13 mm etc. For 10 mm 3/8 will not go on and 7/16 12 point (have not tried 6 point) will not turn it.

2510Paul · Dec 20, 2018

Thanks guys for the responses. I just added Stubby Combinations to my want list. I must be missing something there or I don't do enough wrenching.

The more I think about it, maybe that's why I have several combination wrenches in my drawer that I sawed off. Ha, Ha, Ha.

I tend to loose the 1/2" and 9/16" so I go on ebay and try and find American Made Replacements or extras.

Thanks again.

Paul

2510Paul · Dec 20, 2018

Thanks for confirming my math. When I first saw the posts regarding 10MM I did the Math thinking it served multiple sizes. Not the case.

Merry Christmas.

Paul

Phil9N3667 · Dec 20, 2018

I tend to misplace 10MM wrenches, not sockets. IH truck engines with 10 MM head bolts tended to wear Snap On impacts out, chrome sockets were a joke on them. I've bought my last 10 MM Snap On wrench as the prices are ridiculous. The Klutch wrenches from Northern work well for me. My $.02 worth!

big tee · Dec 20, 2018

If you are into tractor pulling you need a 10 mm to turn the Bosch pump up.---Tee

4520BW · Dec 20, 2018

Hey T if you need a spare I may have one laying around?

big tee · Dec 20, 2018

Thanks 4520-But I don't need one for I have one of those rare metric vise-grips!---Tee

4520BW · Dec 20, 2018

I was referring to the pump!

JGayman · Dec 20, 2018

I guess I'm the weirdo. In over 40 years of wrenching and using 10mm sockets and wrenches I've never lost one. I always put my tools back in the toolbox when finished.

big tee · Dec 20, 2018

You must have one of those big one piece at a time Johnny Cash lunch boxes!---Tee

rustyfarmall · Dec 20, 2018

Most of the wrenches I have lost had help getting lost, and it wasn't from me. I'm pretty sure they went home in someone elses pocket.

ghostdncr · Dec 20, 2018

:lol:

jeffcat · Dec 20, 2018

Both my Fords there are some 12mm then there are a boat load of 10mm and a few 9mm & 8mm in the dashboard. Now here and there I ran across a 7mm and 6mm inside the instrument cluster. Changing those little tiny indicator bulbs. Funny how metric sockets will work on some of the nuts and bolts on lawn mowers. Must be magic. If you pull out your SAE Tools they fit too. Scratch my head a little. Soc8alist plot.

4520BW · Dec 20, 2018

No way that little pump could feed more two cylinders on these engines! I think I got it when I bought a 4020 turbo and manifold. They guy had alot of that kind of stuff so I bought him out...he needed money because of a divorce

greg oliver · Dec 20, 2018

Phil, Are you working on DT engines? The DT 530 started smoking like a locomotive and after pulling valve cover had exhaust coming out of intake ports.

Southern Ray · Dec 20, 2018

My first metric tool I bought, more than thirty years ago.

tn terry t · Dec 20, 2018

(quoted from post at 14:16:04 12/20/18) Thanks 4520-But I don't need one for I have one of those rare metric vise-grips!---Tee
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but are they the right hand version or the left handed version :lol:

stoughtonfarmboy · Dec 20, 2018

On my Facebook page a friend that has a motorcycle shop posted a picture of a 10mm socket jammed onto the seat bolt of a customer's dirt bike. The head of the bolt is on the underside of the rear fender. Must have seen the same joke.

Ken

Stephen Newell · Dec 21, 2018

The earth may not stop but seems to go to H if you need one and it seems to have fallen off the planet.

Janicholson · Dec 22, 2018

Or cratered multi million dollar mars probe into mars because one contractor used Customary (inch) units and NASA
doesn't for a mid course correction. Jim

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