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davidgray968 wrote:

DoctorFish wrote:

You can sometimes get away with using an imperial adjustable spanner with Whitworth bolts, but it is advisable not to try and use one for metric.

Can I use an imperial adjustable spanner for BSA bolts or do I have buy another type?

 

I have heard that some people do this, but a thin shim may be required.  Although I have heard of some adjustable spanners that fit different bolt standards by turning the spanner upside-down.

DoctorFish wrote:

davidgray968 wrote:

DoctorFish wrote:

You can sometimes get away with using an imperial adjustable spanner with Whitworth bolts, but it is advisable not to try and use one for metric.

Can I use an imperial adjustable spanner for BSA bolts or do I have buy another type?

 

I have heard that some people do this, but a thin shim may be required.  Although I have heard of some adjustable spanners that fit different bolt standards by turning the spanner upside-down.

I think you only need the shims for the round-headed bolts.

Turning the spanner upside-down is recommended for when the installer was left-handed.

davidgray968 wrote:

Sorry I am left handed and the last time I lent one out they turned out to be right handed and when I eventually got it back it never worked properly again. So unless you are too I will have to decline your request.

I'm ambidextrous.

Sorry if that's put you off your dinner.

OldRidgeback wrote:

 I'm ambidextrous.  Sorry if that's put you off your dinner.

You may identify as ambidextrous but in reality you can't change your dex.

davidgray968 wrote:

Ratfink wrote:

"a metric or imperial adjustable spanner"

???

You must young so only use a metric adjustable spanner/wrench. I am over 60 and have had both imperial and metric tools all my life hence why I asked the question as I know that America doesn’t use the metric system and Specialized is American, well in a loose sense of the word. Many years ago there was a little shop not far from where I lived where you could buy all sorts of tools – bubbles for spirit levels, long weights and even glass hammers, which I still have and use to this day and great for stiff or stuck carbon seat posts especially on carbon frames.

Can I borrow your left handed screwdriver?

davidgray968 wrote:

Ratfink wrote:

"a metric or imperial adjustable spanner"

???

You must young so only use a metric adjustable spanner/wrench. I am over 60 and have had both imperial and metric tools all my life hence why I asked the question as I know that America doesn’t use the metric system and Specialized is American, well in a loose sense of the word. Many years ago there was a little shop not far from where I lived where you could buy all sorts of tools – bubbles for spirit levels, long weights and even glass hammers, which I still have and use to this day and great for stiff or stuck carbon seat posts especially on carbon frames.

But aren't adjustable spanners continuously adjudtable, rather than having discrete size settings?  So it wouldn't matter whether you are using metric or imperial based nuts.

Just looked at wiki and it doesn't seem as if there's any metric/imperial distinction.  But it does say

Quote:

The type of straight adjustable spanner with jaws at right angles to the handle shown here as an "English Key"[is mainly called a "King Dick" spanner in the United Kingdom

Quote:

In Canada and the United States, the tool is known as a Crescent wrench

I guess one might want to know if one has a King Dick or just a crescent wrench.

FluffyKittenofTindalos wrote:

But aren't adjustable spanners continuously adjudtable, rather than having discrete size settings?  So it wouldn't matter whether you are using metric or imperial based nuts.

Woosh?

hawkinspeter wrote:

FluffyKittenofTindalos wrote:

But aren't adjustable spanners continuously adjudtable, rather than having discrete size settings?  So it wouldn't matter whether you are using metric or imperial based nuts.

Woosh?

Its OK, Fluffy Kitten of Tindalos was thinking about those special (great old!) ones, which are designed for non-Euclidean space 

davidgray968 wrote:

brooksby wrote:

hawkinspeter wrote:

FluffyKittenofTindalos wrote:

But aren't adjustable spanners continuously adjudtable, rather than having discrete size settings?  So it wouldn't matter whether you are using metric or imperial based nuts.

Woosh?

Its OK, Fluffy Kitten of Tindalos was thinking about those special (great old!) ones, which are designed for non-Euclidean space 

You learn something new every day, I thought that was the space at the back of the sofa where all your loose change disappeared into.

Is that what is studied by students of sofology? 

brooksby wrote:

davidgray968 wrote:

brooksby wrote:

hawkinspeter wrote:

FluffyKittenofTindalos wrote:

But aren't adjustable spanners continuously adjudtable, rather than having discrete size settings?  So it wouldn't matter whether you are using metric or imperial based nuts.

Woosh?

Its OK, Fluffy Kitten of Tindalos was thinking about those special (great old!) ones, which are designed for non-Euclidean space 

You learn something new every day, I thought that was the space at the back of the sofa where all your loose change disappeared into.

Is that what is studied by students of sofology? 

Well, I got my last sofa from Sofology and have had a hell of a time fitting it into my 3+1 dimensional universe.

hawkinspeter wrote:

brooksby wrote:

davidgray968 wrote:

brooksby wrote:

hawkinspeter wrote:

FluffyKittenofTindalos wrote:

But aren't adjustable spanners continuously adjudtable, rather than having discrete size settings?  So it wouldn't matter whether you are using metric or imperial based nuts.

Woosh?

Its OK, Fluffy Kitten of Tindalos was thinking about those special (great old!) ones, which are designed for non-Euclidean space 

You learn something new every day, I thought that was the space at the back of the sofa where all your loose change disappeared into.

Is that what is studied by students of sofology? 

Well, I got my last sofa from Sofology and have had a hell of a time fitting it into my 3+1 dimensional universe.

 

You should have got an oscillation overthruster, then you could have folded it through the eighth dimension so it would fit

brooksby wrote:

hawkinspeter wrote:

brooksby wrote:

davidgray968 wrote:

brooksby wrote:

hawkinspeter wrote:

FluffyKittenofTindalos wrote:

But aren't adjustable spanners continuously adjudtable, rather than having discrete size settings?  So it wouldn't matter whether you are using metric or imperial based nuts.

Woosh?

Its OK, Fluffy Kitten of Tindalos was thinking about those special (great old!) ones, which are designed for non-Euclidean space 

You learn something new every day, I thought that was the space at the back of the sofa where all your loose change disappeared into.

Is that what is studied by students of sofology? 

Well, I got my last sofa from Sofology and have had a hell of a time fitting it into my 3+1 dimensional universe.

 

You should have got an oscillation overthruster, then you could have folded it through the eighth dimension so it would fit

I thought of trying that, but Aldi had run out of vector bosons.

hawkinspeter wrote:

brooksby wrote:

hawkinspeter wrote:

brooksby wrote:

davidgray968 wrote:

brooksby wrote:

hawkinspeter wrote:

FluffyKittenofTindalos wrote:

But aren't adjustable spanners continuously adjudtable, rather than having discrete size settings?  So it wouldn't matter whether you are using metric or imperial based nuts.

Woosh?

Its OK, Fluffy Kitten of Tindalos was thinking about those special (great old!) ones, which are designed for non-Euclidean space 

You learn something new every day, I thought that was the space at the back of the sofa where all your loose change disappeared into.

Is that what is studied by students of sofology? 

Well, I got my last sofa from Sofology and have had a hell of a time fitting it into my 3+1 dimensional universe.

 

You should have got an oscillation overthruster, then you could have folded it through the eighth dimension so it would fit

I thought of trying that, but Aldi had run out of vector bosons.

If you can’t get any, you can just make some out of tiny bits of string

Stratman wrote:

hawkinspeter wrote:

brooksby wrote:

hawkinspeter wrote:

brooksby wrote:

davidgray968 wrote:

brooksby wrote:

hawkinspeter wrote:

FluffyKittenofTindalos wrote:

But aren't adjustable spanners continuously adjudtable, rather than having discrete size settings?  So it wouldn't matter whether you are using metric or imperial based nuts.

Woosh?

Its OK, Fluffy Kitten of Tindalos was thinking about those special (great old!) ones, which are designed for non-Euclidean space 

You learn something new every day, I thought that was the space at the back of the sofa where all your loose change disappeared into.

Is that what is studied by students of sofology? 

Well, I got my last sofa from Sofology and have had a hell of a time fitting it into my 3+1 dimensional universe.

 

You should have got an oscillation overthruster, then you could have folded it through the eighth dimension so it would fit

I thought of trying that, but Aldi had run out of vector bosons.

If you can’t get any, you can just make some out of tiny bits of string

I would've, but the squirrels keep stealing the string. I don't even know what they're doing with it

davidgray968 wrote:

Ratfink wrote:

"a metric or imperial adjustable spanner"

???

You must young so only use a metric adjustable spanner/wrench. I am over 60 and have had both imperial and metric tools all my life hence why I asked the question as I know that America doesn’t use the metric system and Specialized is American, well in a loose sense of the word. Many years ago there was a little shop not far from where I lived where you could buy all sorts of tools – bubbles for spirit levels, long weights and even glass hammers, which I still have and use to this day and great for stiff or stuck carbon seat posts especially on carbon frames.

Did this shop stock dry-roasted wrenches? I've heard they're good for sticky nuts.