[GreenKeys] Tools you can use.

[drlegendre .]

Hey Dave & All

On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 10:32 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:

> On Sat, 20 Jun 2015, Don Robert House K9TTY wrote:
>
> > I always thought this was a joke, but my Dad kept telling me "No it is
> > really a Monkey Wrench"
>
> Ah, countries divided by a common language.  In Britain it's an adjustable
> spanner, whilst in Australia it's a shifter.  Basically, it's a butcher's
> tool, but it's handy in an emergency.


And in France, what we (in the USA) would normally call a Crescent wrench,
is called an 'English wrench".. as the Brits tended to use British Standard
/ Whitworth (BSW) fittings, while their continental  cousins were using the
metric standards from early on.
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