Date:         Tue, 11 Mar 2003 12:18:33 -0800
Reply-To:     fortinoj@SPEAKEASY.NET
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Joseph Fortino <fortinoj@SPEAKEASY.NET>
Subject:      Re: Product review: folding lug wrench / It's Wonderful!!!
Comments: To: Mark Belanger <belanger@FLUID.COM>
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I broke my folding lug wrench and it almost took my back
with it, these are toooo soft i have a cross wrench now.
steel nuts sometime lock up on the studs.

Joe

On 11 Mar 2003, Mark Belanger wrote:

> 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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> __________________________
> Mark Belanger - belanger@fluid.com