...have a standard drive?🤔🤔🤔

 

That is a great question to ponder...I have Hazet brand made in Germany sockets that are metric and are called 1/2" drive...hmm?

 

Why are spark plug threads metric?

 

There was a time when absolutely nothing was standardized on tools, and no manufacturer's tools would work with anyone else's. It took WW2 military tool specifications and standards to change that.

Be glad everyone sticks to the 1/4, 3/8, 1/2, 3/4, 1 inch drive sizes now, along with standardized SAE and metric wrench and socket broaches.

 

It's a shame no one told the Brits, I guess, for a while. I still have a bunch of that British Whitworth crap from HS748's.

 

Probably because Snap On invented the practice of using removable sockets, on a ratcheting handle. And they are American.

 

Because most ratchet sets in the U.S. that everyone already has are standard sizes. When you need a metric-sizes socket, it's because you want to work with a metric-sized bolt or nut. It doesn't matter what size the fitting is that holds the socket on the wrench. It could be Martian for all that it matters.

 

I have a metric sized ratchet, It's a very rare and for sale. It has a 9.525 mm drive. It's gonna be expensive.

 

^^^^This....is see what you did there!

 

Hi,

There is a military size slightly larger than a 1/4" drive, have a set that came from a military base.


Regards,
Jim

 

Do you really want to have to buy a completely different set of ratchets to use with your metric sockets?

 

Snap-on wants you to believe that.

Blackhawk, Walden-Worcester and Mossberg beat them by several years. In fact, Snap-on's founders worked for Blackhawk before striking out on their own in 1920.

To their credit they WERE among the first to produce forged broached sockets. Prior to that sockets were made of pressed steel which could split or deform under hard use and injure the user.

Snap-on was one of those companies who used "proprietary" oddball size drives. 9/32, 5/8, 7/8. Made sure you had to continue buying their products when you wanted to expand your tool set. See, their marketing has always been shady.

 

So that's where Apple got it...

 

😂

 

Hmmm... 🤔

 

 

LOL, it's more than a tool......It's a family heirloom!