Stewart Hargrave said:
Because there's more to the internet than hits alone, Les & Claire
wrote:
Thinking on, I may have been wrong to suggest it might be metric,
since a 25mm spanner is a rare thing, standard sizes going in 2mm
steps at that size.
26mm will obviously be a loose fit, but should do the job. But it's a
pretty big and possibly odd-sized spanner to be on the shelf of many
tool shops - I'd say a 1" was a more likely option to find anywhere.
What about a decent Stilson's wrench? A particularly useful addition
to anyone's toolbag, anyway.
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Having played motorbikes and cars of metric and imperial nuts etc I invested
in a set of "Metrinch" tools. Just as expensive as Sidcrome but they drive
on the wall of nuts and not the corners. This gives a seemingly loose fit,
which is its advantage - one size spanner or socket may fit a few sizes of
nuts either/both metric and imperial, with out the possibility of ever
damaging them. Because it drives on the side walls and not the points it
will never stuff your nuts, and when someone has been before you and stuffed
them up good and proper, these spanners still work perfectly on them. IMHO
they are as useful as easy outs when nothing else will work.
There is a disadvantage (so don't throw away your other spanners) there are
times when you can only move a nut in a tight space a couple of degrees at a
time and then you turn the spanner around and use its other angle and back
and forth. With Metrinch the extra slack around the nut makes this sort of
manouvering hard and occassionally not possible.
They are very good quality and lifetime guarantee, you can't beat them. No
I don't sell them, but once you have used them they sell themselves.
Jeff
Check out the website
http://www.metrinch-tools.com/
The Difference that counts
A nut or a bolt has flats and corners. The corners are more easily damaged
and do not offer the optimum grip for a tool. In developing the Metrinch
tool system Jozef Ruzicka had the aim to design sockets and spanners, which
would not only have longer effective life, but would also ensure minimal
damage to the fasteners on which they are used. The patented Metrinch Wall
Drive profile drives only on the flats and not on the corners. The
dimensions of Metrinch sockets and spanners have been precisely calculated,
so that a single Metrinch tool will operate on both
