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Originally Posted by Gary WA
Have you heard of UES International company from Australia? My son is UES USA Inc CEO here in the U.S.Been in Australia since 1904.Close by,? Next time he's in Aust. he can drop off a socket to you.
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Thanks for the offer, Gary. No, I haven't heard of them so I did a search. The nearest one is nearly an hour away.
It's the big end nuts that cause most angst so I file them to take the nearest metric. Better still, I replace the originals with new 12 point nuts, even Nylocks. 16mm is 5/8" which is what I use on the mains and 21/32" is 17 mm.. With a decent set of metric sockets, I have one for every mm. That is 0.040". 1/32" is 0.031" It is not until we get to the smaller sizes that a step of that size might cause an issue. I also have some old Whitworth spanners and every now and then, one of those fits.