Date:         Tue, 11 Mar 2003 11:06:09 -0800
Reply-To:     Mark Belanger <belanger@FLUID.COM>
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From:         Mark Belanger <belanger@FLUID.COM>
Organization: Fluid, Inc.
Subject:      Re: Product review: folding lug wrench / It's Wonderful!!!
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That's right, David, the lug is snug as a VW bug in a rug.

I guess Mr. von Wiener or his customer has some serious hostility
towards the Taiwanese...


-MB

David Beierl wrote:
> At 08:00 AM 3/11/2003, George Goff wrote:
>
>> One thing, Willi von Wiener, my mechanic, told me that if a wrench
>> fits a 3/4
>> inch nut, then it is nearly 1/16 inch too large for a 19 mm nut.  So,
>> do you
>
>
> 3/4" * 25.4 = 19.05mm exactly.
>
> Hmm, I think Willi von Wiener got handed one of those rubber rulers when he
> got off the boat.  Or perhaps he was thinking of a 17.5mm nut?  I tried to
> help him out with the old conversion units in case he got here before 1959,
> but no joy, the difference either way amounted to less than 0.00001 inch
>
> <grinning, ducking & running>
> david
>
> --
> David Beierl - Providence RI USA -- http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
> '84 Westy "Dutiful Passage"
> '85 GL "Poor Relation"

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