Why do they skip sizes of metric combo wrenches?

They are currently under the Ideal Tools brand and are sold to any high-end mfrg company that may still be in existence and/or can afford to pay "tool reps". I recall my company's relation with Ideal Tools. Hot, cute, tool reps to sell you tools at insanely high prices, less than ethical shipping practices, after you've ordered.

I'm not a China hater. I figure China is to mfrg, now, what USA was, back in the 50s-60s. They will provide the quality they are paid to provide. No more, no less. At least Husky has the "Forever Guarantee".

Being retired, I don't hafta worry about tool quality as much as when I was a pro. This is fortunate, as the tools now available are crap, compared to 30-40 yrs ago. OTOH, I recently bought some Craftsman SAE combo wrenches. I held out until the "Made in USA" wrenches were on sale. Yes! Sears offers both domestic and foreign made tools under the Craftman name. Yer choice. I don't wanna guess "where" in the the USA these tools were made. Hopefully, not on Guam.

BTW, my chrome S-K sockets never lost their chrome plating, even when I used 'em on air impact tools. Too bad they were stolen. :(

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I have a set of S-K long box wrenches (at least 60 yrs old, from a neighbor lady)...they still look like stainless steel!

If you know anyone who has recently had a baby, look closely between their butt cheeks for a "Made in China" label. 93.7% of all babies made since 2005 are now made in China.

All of the chrome on the bike proper is plated here in Kitchener Ontario by Kuntz Electroplating.

The japanese parts would be things like the starter and some other electrical parts.

Back in the 60s and 70s SK was as good a tool as anything on the market.. I've had most of my Craftsman tools since 1969 - along with most of my SK and Herbrand.

I've got a surprise for you. A 1976 Rabbit isn'r a german car - it was built in Westmoreland Pennsylvania

There are still decent quality tools available - comparable to the Craftsman tools of the late 60s - and the surprizing thing is they don't cost much more than the Craftsman tools did back in the time.

I have well over $20,000 invested in mechanics hand tools - many purchaced when I was making significantly under $5 an hour.

I could replace virtually all of them for under $8000 today - with equivalent or better quality and warrantee. (and I earn a lot more than $5 an hour today!!!) Back then I could by a nice new mustang for under $3000 0 making that $20000 more like 200000 today!!!

What, precisely, constitutes a "japanese" (sic) part?

Did you know that when HD bought themselves back from AMF and developed the Evolution engine, those engines were manufactured (in the USA) on 40 million dollars worth of newly purchased (from Japan) Japanese mfrg equipment? That was 1984.

Somehow, I doubt even less of that particular brand of m/c is currently mfrd in the USA, today. 8|

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Mine are 50 years old and yes, better than the new stuff.

I thought VWs were built by MTD.

Maybe the Mormon isn't dead? No...even he was funnier!

Some of the cast wheels are by Enkei. They may be made in the Jacksonville plant. I don't know about current production but they used to favor Dunlop tires. Who knows where they were made.

My '86 F150 isn't a US truck; it was built in Canada...

The Westmoreland plant didn't start building Rabbits until 1978:

My 1976 VW Rabbit was built in Wolfsburg, Germany.

Anthony Watson

My 1967 Beetle was born in Germany, lived in Germany and died in Germany.

I totaled it while stationed at USCG LORSTA Sylt Germany in 1976.

There are 9mm bolts on Nakamura, GT and Diadora bicycles but some sets don't come with these sockets.

I have never used 9 and 20 mm. A rounded/rusted 10/21 might fit. I have all metric sizes from 6mm except 20. If somebody need a 9mm flexible ratchet wrench let me know...

There are at least 3 metric "standards - german. japanese. and American -f you like - and they use different thread sizes and different heads on those sizes. Foir instance a 6mm bolt can have a 10 or 11mm head. AN 8mm can have 12 or 13mm head. A 10mm can have 14 0r

I had this question too in the middle of working on a car. That is when I discovered the following:

Manufacturers are not including the metric sizes which match up to common SAE sizes, either because the set purchased includes both metric and SAE or in order to encourage metric users to also purchase the SAE set given that there are more metric sizes than SAE.