whats 1/4ww mean on a socket?

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Having been brought up on agricultural machinery we didn't bother with spanners AF WW etc, we just used a Stilson with a 3ft length of scaffolding pipe which usally sorted things, and if that didn't it was a 14lb lump hammer and the oxy-acetylene torch.
 
english doctor said:
Having been brought up on agricultural machinery we didn't bother with spanners AF WW etc, we just used a Stilson with a 3ft length of scaffolding pipe which usally sorted things, and if that didn't it was a 14lb lump hammer and the oxy-acetylene torch.
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What the farmers describe up here as "The Gas Spanner"!

CharlesY
 
slob said:
never seen any unc or unf spanner or sockets, does halfrauds do em?
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They aren't so easy to get these days, and are not called UNF or UNC anyway. They are referred to simply by the jaw size in inch fractions, or as "Imperial" sizes. I look after my Snap-On Imperial tools very carefully. They will see me out.

I still think they are easier to recognise.

But then, I am old, brought up on pounds shilings and pence, tons hundredweights and pounds, and miles yards and inches , all good decent Christian units of mensuration that evolved over centuries because they WORKED.

Napoleon invented the metric system only so that France would not use ENGLISH units! A metre was to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the north pole (or south pole). They got it wrong anyway, and so ALL metric units are bastard sizes as a result, including litres.

In many parts of France they still use pounds weight as a unit, such as a pouind of butter. Slob may know if that is what they do in his area.

CharlesY
 
CharlesY said:
But then, I am old, brought up on pounds shilings and pence, tons hundredweights and pounds, and miles yards and inches , all good decent Christian units of mensuration that evolved over centuries because they WORKED.
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Fook me, Charlesy - that is OLD! maybe even olderer than me.:eek:
 
Used to rent yer allotment by the Rod (Pole or Perch), which is 4 and a half yards square.
Used to buy cider apples by the Peck or Bushel (a peck is a volume equivalent to a gallon and 4 pecks make one Bushel).
 
Napoleon won on the side of the road to drive on though, didn't he? In Italy we have wonderful phrases for metric measurements such as 125g is an "eto"
 
Treworgey 90 said:
Used to rent yer allotment by the Rod (Pole or Perch), which is 4 and a half yards square.
Used to buy cider apples by the Peck or Bushel (a peck is a volume equivalent to a gallon and 4 pecks make one Bushel).
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First "job" was helping out in hardware shop (remember them?) after school. Remember having my parents marital status, my brain power, and various other things questioned as I suppplied the customer with his plumbing requirements he asked for 1/2" connectors, so I gave him them from the box marked 1/2".

I did not know there are 1/2" imperial & 1/2" metric, and he did not ask!

He just had a 50 mile round trip for his troubles
 
ok now its been trult hijacked!!!! back to the question, the 1/4 ww is not 1/4 inch in size so how does it work then if its 1/4 ww what is that meant to be in inches???? i did think whitworth but only cos i'd heard the name!!!
 
If you are still confused about spanner sizes you could try my favourite search engine Dogpile UK Web Search Home Page which is actually a meta search engine and searches other search engines and compiles results of most popular results. they tried to rename it recently but nobody used the new name so they've stuck with the dogpile
Its where I get my up to date medical knowledge from
 
english doctor said:
If you are still confused about spanner sizes you could try my favourite search engine Dogpile UK Web Search Home Page which is actually a meta search engine and searches other search engines and compiles results of most popular results. they tried to rename it recently but nobody used the new name so they've stuck with the dogpile
Its where I get my up to date medical knowledge from
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OY SHURRUP !

Me n Grippas torkin porn ere if yer dunt mind:p
 
CharlesY said:
But then, I am old, brought up on pounds shilings and pence, tons hundredweights and pounds, and miles yards and inches , all good decent Christian units of mensuration that evolved over centuries because they WORKED.
CharlesY
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Never quite understood why there's 112 lb in a hundredweight??? Why not make it a hundred or call it a hundredntwelveweight? An you sed it were simpler?:confused:
 
CharlesY said:
They aren't so easy to get these days, and are not called UNF or UNC anyway. They are referred to simply by the jaw size in inch fractions, or as "Imperial" sizes. I look after my Snap-On Imperial tools very carefully. They will see me out.

I still think they are easier to recognise.

But then, I am old, brought up on pounds shilings and pence, tons hundredweights and pounds, and miles yards and inches , all good decent Christian units of mensuration that evolved over centuries because they WORKED.

Napoleon invented the metric system only so that France would not use ENGLISH units! A metre was to be one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the north pole (or south pole). They got it wrong anyway, and so ALL metric units are bastard sizes as a result, including litres.

In many parts of France they still use pounds weight as a unit, such as a pouind of butter. Slob may know if that is what they do in his area.

CharlesY
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i usually have a few drinks before i start sprouting bollocks. what about you? or are you capable of uttering utter bollocks whilst sober?
 
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