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Re: Darn Square nuts/bolts!
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Posted by wdTom on July 28, 2003 at 18:25:51 from (155.212.222.12):
In Reply to: Darn Square nuts/bolts! posted by G. L. Perry on July 27, 2003 at 20:20:31:
Square nuts and bolts are "old tech". When there was a lot more room on machines to get at the nut or bolt head. When the mechanic only had one wrench and it fit all. Especially the farmer. Farmers were not mechanics and when they got a tractor they didn't get a $1000 worth of tools to work on it. They used the monkey wrench they had. A cresent wrench would have been a high tech tool to a farmer in the 20s and 30s. Square heads work a lot better with adjuatable wrenches than a hex head. I have called (fondly) square head fastners "farmer bolts or nuts" for sometime now. I do perfer hex though, fit my sockets and box wrenches, yes, I have a few square sockets too for the square head plugs and fastners I encounter.
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