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Originally Posted by David's8
Not sure I understand this 18mm socket/spanner lark  My ancient draper socket set had an 18mm and the Kamasa (W Germany) combination ring/open ended set has an 18mm and I have two ring spanners (Heyco - W German) and Draper which also have 18/19mm ended ones??
If you would have asked I would have lent you a pair  IIRC my drop links were 18mm bolt with a 17mm nut - or vice versa. |
A socket is the tube shaped one and the spanner is the long flat one.
Those tools were probably made before the standardisation? possibly when metric was quite new
I reckon they had to make them all as any size could be used. Later sets skipped from 17 - 19 especially the cheaper ones. I'm talking DIY type sets not professional.