Thread: Try not to laugh too hard - am doing mechanics course ...

Originally Posted by Panda

Don't get me started ... you have no idea what a total pain it is being left handed. Did I tell you about the knife I bought? Oh, it was a beauty, except it's designed for right handed people, & I can't open it, without near on cutting my Goddam hand off. And working on the SIII is just as bad ... trying to bloody torque the flange ... what a pain in the arse that was ...

I'd give my right arm to be ambidexterous.

Am sure we can work something out ... that's if you manage to get them. Just had to pass up going to Glenford's tool shop ... exceeded my tool buying limit yesterday, & didn't want any more temptation. Not my strong point! um, seeing a tool I want & not buying it, I meant.

Originally Posted by cooper

No problem with that,postage might be for you though.Might have to arrange AULRO courier service .

Originally Posted by cooper

Here is where i show my ignorance, AF and Whitworths,are they compatible?

No mate, AF relates to head size. Whitworth to shank/thread.

Not really. Bit like me.

"Joseph Whitworth (1803 - 1887) was a British mechanical engineer and tool maker who was also responsible for establishing precision measurement and manufacturing standards. Yes, it's the same Whitworth who sent you scouring the countryside for Whitworth wrenches for your MG".

Originally Posted by cooper

Here is where i show my ignorance, AF and Whitworths,are they compatible?

Here's a thread that may spark your interest, Panda. As well as induce some lively banter next time Tony has goanna in your shed.
Nissans might have strong axles, but pity about the wheel studs...

Glad to see I'm not the only "molly duker" around here. Comes in handy sometimes, but bloody tape measures are always upside down!

Originally Posted by V8Ian

Do you want left handed or right handed shifters?

Perhaps one with a reversable ratchet head might be ideal for the budding apprentice ?

Deano

being ambidexterous and having used both the left and the right handed version of the ratcheting shifter I find it hugely annoying when I goto use the left handed shifter in my right hand and find myself undoing the fitting I thought I was doing up.

yes, I know that they are clearly labeled but its very hard to read your spanners when youve managed to get them covered in gunk while working in the dark space under the vehicle while your holding up a transmission part in one hand, chocking the vehicle's wheels with you're feet and cant shift your head to see what your doing as your using your head to keep the exhaust from falling down and interfering with the tcase while you put it all together.

It also doesnt help that when I heat shrink wrapped my shifter handles I covered up the handles markings, I always thought it was a fairly simple matter to identify the difference between say a left handed metric ratcheting shifter and the right handed witworth one but noooo. The number of times I get some TA whining that not only has he snapped the head off of a stud nut or has rounded the corners off of a nut or bolt and I've had to show him the basics of the difference between the types of shifter..

Im giving serious consideration to stopping the appies from playing with my tool box.

Perhaps If I recovered some of them in a different colour, say yellow

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"Joseph Whitworth (1803 - 1887) was a British mechanical engineer and tool maker who was also responsible for establishing precision measurement and manufacturing standards....................
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Standards!! British (total lack of) Standard Whitworth, Pipe thread, Fine, Cycle Thread and whatever other awful conglomeration of crazy thread pitches they could think of. And the spanner sizes only relevant to a "standard" nut and bolt.

This is one thing the yanks got right, no mucking about UNF or UNC, take it or leave it and AF spanner sizes that actually relate to the "accross the flats" measurement of the nuts and bolts.

Fortunately the metric standard uses the same logic. Which is suprising really, you'd expect the French to come up with something totally, well, French.

Taking a page out of Pandas book and going off topic, (us leftys have to stick together), pulled a spanner from the bowels of the tool box which reads 25 A/F 1/4 one end and 31 A/F 5/16 the other. Of course it's made in England by Britool, any ideas ?

Deano