In case you happen to be working on an old British car, a pre-1968 Triumph motorcycle, or a British Railway Pullman car, these will likely come in handy.
For more information on BSW standards check out this article.
Last Call- Whitworth Spanners Edition
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The spanners are Snap-On. The bolt heads will Snap-Off.
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Your crazy moon language means nothing to me.
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That's not so much an article as it is a mystifying table of numbers and letters.
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I'm pretty sure these are the same as British Standard (stop the jokes about those initials right now). I had to buy a set of these weird-ass wrenches to pull the head and jugs on my Norton Commando, years ago. Get this: I still have them, and they were the only wrenches I had that fit the head bolts on the ill-fated Iron Duke in my Jeep CJ8. That engine was just plain stupid. The bolt sizes that my wrenches fit were stupid, too, neither fish nor fowl.
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Every time I hear Whitworth, I think of pancake syrup. I wonder how much easier life would be with a set of these things?
I've got 3 MGBs (including the Killer ZomBee) that I never know if I'm gonna need a standard or metric wrench for. Even if the original part was standard, the replacement parts could be either. I've come to the conclusion that a 1/2" combination and a 2 pound hammer will fix a large percentage of problems that don't involve electrical fires.
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They're real old ones too! I just went out and looked in my tool chest, and only one wrench had that same style script stamped on it. It was the very first Snap-On wrench I every owned, a 10mm long combination wrench given to me at a mountain-bike race back in the mid-80's by a fellow racer whom I had given my spare inner-tube to. It looked old then, so I'm curious Mr. Robber, any idea how old these….Er… spanners are?
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With the lettering for Snap On, I want to say mid '60's for some reason.
I have a few Whitworth wrenches in the box, collecting dust. I have no clue how they got there. Something Dad must have needed back in the stone age of auto repair. -
Those date back to the early '60s. I believe my father in law bought them while working as a wrench monkey at Peter Satori Imports in Pasadena, CA.
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must be the same sizes as my china cheapo spanners, after three times use you only know which to use by trying to fit them.
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Brings tears of Morris Minor love-hate to my eyes.
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There's why I restricted myself to oil-in-frame Bonnies and BSAs.
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Never use a ring spanner (or similar) on one jaw of an open ended spanner as a makeshift 'extender'. It is very likely to slip (leading to injury or damage) and can also damage the open jaw, leading to more problems and expense later on.
I have certainly broken this rule. Sometimes you just don't have room for a pipe or the angle is just right to use another wrench as an extender. -
That's about as bad as American cars from the mid-1970s to the 1990s. Usually a mix of standard and metric with no rhyme or reason. I remember back from my days with Rayloc/NAPA that GM had one brake caliper with two different part numbers. The only difference was that one had a standard bleeder screw, the other was metric.
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It can sound that anyone is into this specific stuff lately. Don’t really fully grasp it though, but yet thanks for looking to explain it.
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