Re: Odd Bolt

Posted by NC Wayne on November 16, 2006 at 20:24:46 from (205.188.117.14):

In Reply to: Odd Bolt posted by Pete7 on November 16, 2006 at 10:20:58:

It's not that common but I've been seeing odd mixes of standard and metric in bolts for about 7 years now. The first encounter was a 5/8 course thread bolt with a metric stamped 10.9 head. Many of the head sizes are so close together between metric and standard that you can go either way when using a wrench or socket and not know any real difference, expecially if the head is worn a little bit. I routinely run into button head allen screws that take a 5mm allen to fit them but the thread is 1/4-20. I hate metric fasteners with a passion mainly because it requires me to keep two complete tool sets on my truck to be able to work on anything because of the inevitable mixing of standard and metric on machines. I just wish someone would make up their mind and make the ultimate decision and go either all metric or all standard and end all the mixed up crap. The bad thing about that is if they decided on all metric there are still alot of special tools that still aren't available in metric sizes...and that would just make my life that much harder and stretch my tool buying dollar that much more trying to get the ones that were available.........

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