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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Automotive Insanity > 2024 AI Chat Thread - Well I have bad news for everyone who enjoys working on cars
 
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Coredump
Dec 1, 2002

 I was looking at a set of sockets that skipped some metric sizes that led me to looking at this chart:


The question I have for everyone is: What socket sizes would you choose to bring with you if you wanted to cover the common sizes between 1" to 5/16" or 25mm to 8mm? For instance would bring just the 14mm that subs for 9/16 or would you bring the 9/16? Or are you bringing both? For instance if you were packing a set for the junkyard? Assuming the car isn't all metric or standard. I was looking at the 14mm and google says it comes out to 0.55 inches and 9/16 comes out 0.5625 so is it smarter to carry the 9/16 to be a little over on mm?

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Coredump
Dec 1, 2002

Safety Dance posted:

I have been nerdsniped. ASME b18.2.2 (page 25) specifies the minimum and maximum wrench opening for a given nut size of

code:
minimum = nominal_width + 0.005*nominal_width + 0.001
maximum = minimum + 0.005*nominal_width + 0.004
Then I made a spreadsheet, assuming metric sockets should follow the same standard. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1q1kxZZCd6kv8cVOH1yp1-A5AnOTuSnPM2ORsXwf-i_M/edit?usp=sharing

There's remarkably little overlap if you want the kind of tolerances described in ASME b18.2.2. 5/16 definitely works for 8mm, and 3/4 definitely works for 19mm. If your socket set is on the large end of the allowable size, then 11mm works for 7/16, 5/8 works for 16mm, 22mm works for 7/8, and 15/16 works for 24mm.

I didn't calculate "this socket is larger, but not so large that it just spins" because that's how you round off nuts.

This is absolutely amazing. Hell yes.

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Coredump
Dec 1, 2002

 I THINK I have a socket that's in some increment of 64ths. Should get a full set just for the cursed factor.

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