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Tool Kit Wrenches Spanners

twautomotive

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The Rootes parts book list some wrenches as nut , some as bolt and some without the words nut or bolt. Does anyone know an explanation for this? I are most interested in how to tell a 1/2" x 7/16" UNF spanner from a 7/16" (BOLT) x 1/2" UNF spanner? Were nut and bolt sizes different or ???
Tom (a little nut)
 

Pete S.

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That is an old Whitworth designation. If my memory is correct, Whitworth and BSF (British Standard Fine) "spanner" markings used to refer to the bolt diameter -rather than the distance across the flats of the hexagon nut (A/F) as in other standards.

Seems archaic now, but Whitworth is the world's first national screw thread standard.
 
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