Talk:Wrench (tool)

Metric aspects

I'm familiar with metric sockets, Allen drives, etc. on an English socket shaft system, but could someone insert the size of the standard metric drive systems? I assume they exist. Howard C. Berkowitz 13:28, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

Wouldn't it be better to use the term imperial rather than English to refer to imperial measurements? Certainly this is the standard word in the UK; I think many English people wouldn't even know what you mean when you mention English measurements. I presume imperial is the standard word in America too? Or are they always called English in America? That would be rather ironic, seeing as they are hardly even used any more in England... Caesar Schinas 13:49, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

English, or sometimes US Customary, is the common use in the US. Imperial is very rarely used. Just as a start, I'm looking for the standard diameters of things such as the drive bars and connectors for socket wrenches, and, in other article, standard sizes of such things as drill chucks. Howard C. Berkowitz 13:52, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

How odd! I have added this to British and American English. If US Customary is commonly understood in the US, I would suggest using it instead of English, as I think the English would understand better.

I'm afraid I can't tell you the standard sizes of drive bars and connectors for socket wrenches, drill chucks, etc, but I'm sure that WP will say - whether they'll get it right is another matter! Caesar Schinas 13:56, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

Photos

This article would become much clearer with photos of the several wrenches. I could take and upload a few, but I'm not quite sure about their English names and I don't own a very large collection of different wrenches. --Paul Wormer 15:24, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

PD Image
Adjustable wrench/spanner

I checked our big colleagues: they have photos. I found the name of the wrench in the photo, which in Dutch we call Bahco after the Swedish company that makes them. --Paul Wormer 15:42, 18 June 2009 (UTC)