8.10b - first impression and questions

[Nigel Ridley]

David McGlone wrote:
> On Thursday 09 October 2008 8:02:44 pm Derek Broughton wrote:
>> David McGlone wrote:
>>> On Thursday 09 October 2008 11:13:35 am Art Alexion wrote:
>>>> On Thursday 09 October 2008 11:01:20 am Nigel Ridley wrote:
>>>>> You know how hard it is to find an adjustable metric wrench in the
>>>>> USA.......!
>>>> Yep... *I've* never seen one...
>>> It's called a Crescent wrench.
>> Not in my neck of the woods.  A crescent wrench is a _fixed_ size open
>> wrench.
> 
> They were saying it was hard to find an adjustable metric in the U.S. but a 
> Crescent wrench (or an adjustable spanner) in the U.S. is adjustable to 
> standard or metric sizes and is all too common in a toolbox in America. So I 
> don't know how they came up with them being hard to find and never seeing 
> one. :-)
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adjustable_spanner
> 
> David M.
> 
> 

David, -- it was a joke! An adjustable spanner is just that - adjustable -- it's neither metric 
nor imperial.
When I was an apprentice the older guys used to send us to fetch 'left handed screwdrivers', 'a 
bucket of steam', 'a skirting ladder', 'some bubbles for a spirit level', 'sky hooks' and of 
course 'an adjustable metric spanner -- not an imperial one!'.

Just some humor :-)

Blessings,

Nigel

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