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"Highlander-Datsuns are Forever" (jamesbowland) 02/08/2019 at 16:07 • Filed to: None

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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 02/08/2019 at 16:11

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There is no heartbreak like finding your 10mm and losing it again.

MrDakka > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 02/08/2019 at 16:20

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Its always the 10mm that's the heartbreaker

gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 02/08/2019 at 16:29

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I’ve always found this funny. My first socket set is currently missing the deep 8mm (and I know where it is, either deep in the engine bay of someone else’s truck, or lying on the ground somewhere that truck went... I dropped it and it didn’t hit the ground) and the set of metric Allen keys is somewhere other than the case (still in my possession) but all five 10mms are there.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee 02/08/2019 at 16:36

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all five 10mms

The “10mms get lost” principle was overridden by the tendency of the universe to trend toward maximum perversity. Since you’re the guy who didn’t stand to get stuck by losing one, you had to lose something else.

CobraJoe > gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee 02/08/2019 at 16:40

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Pretty sure the 10mm meme is perpetrated by H onda owners. I rarely used a 10mm until I went to disassemble an Acura Integra, seems like 80 percent of the hex heads are 10mm on that thing.

MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee 02/08/2019 at 16:40

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I dropped it and it didn’t hit the ground

That’s the worst, because you know where it is...just not exactly. Once you leave the garage it becomes an unknown as to whether it’s still there or bounced out on to the pavement as you were driving.

Chariotoflove > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 02/08/2019 at 16:41

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What about finding it in your neighbor’s garage?  Then you’ve lost a friend too.

Dash-doorhandle-6 cyl none the richer > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 02/08/2019 at 16:46

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This week I misplaced my purple deep 10 mm on a plastic ratchet. 

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Chariotoflove 02/08/2019 at 16:48

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Thou shalt not covet thy neighbors 10mm.

MoCamino > gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee 02/08/2019 at 16:51

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Burn the witch!!!!

Seriously who doesn’t lose the 10mm?

gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s 02/08/2019 at 17:12

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I spent an hour looking. Unfortunately I was on company time. I was going to come back on my own time to keep looking but someone moved the truck, and then it was just gone forever. Stupid F ords with everything crammed into the engine bay so tight you can’t move...

gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee > CobraJoe 02/08/2019 at 17:20

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There’s plenty of 10mm bolt heads on other things. The metric equivalent to the ubiquitous 1/4" UNC with a 7/16" head  is a ubiquitous M6x1.0 with a 10mm head. My Jeeps use a ton of 10mm heads.

gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 02/08/2019 at 17:23

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It’s 5 in different sizes. Standard and deep for 1/4"- and 3/8"- drive, and standard for 1/2". It really does bother me it’s gone, although 8mm isn’t a super common size from what I can tell. Not uncommon, but not so ubiquitous as the 10mm .

gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee > MoCamino 02/08/2019 at 17:23

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Someone who puts the sockets back in the box when he’s done with them?

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee 02/08/2019 at 17:27

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I have the secret suspicion that most 8mm fasteners get removed by people with 5/16" sockets and nut drivers winging it.

gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 02/08/2019 at 17:34

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This is probably true. However I've turned enough rusty bolt heads into circles to knowingly use the wrong size. Having the right fit matters when your bolts are getting that small. 

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee 02/08/2019 at 17:37

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With 8mm to 5/16" it’s actually a boon with shitty tools, because a worn fastener and a worn driver easily take away the ~15 thou of interference and produce a nice tight fit. This isn’t a 13mm-on-1/2" “approximation”, it’s actually running the other way.

Chariotoflove > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 02/08/2019 at 19:00

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And if your jealous of his 10 millimeters, you have other problems. 

Matt Nichelson > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 02/08/2019 at 20:29

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Truer words have never been spoken. 

Clown Shoe Pilot > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 02/09/2019 at 11:37

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I think that maybe all the lost 10mm sockets fall into  a wormhole that dumps out in my toolbox. I have a ton of 10mm and I know where all of them are.