Help in identifying a spanner size

============================== Judging by your measurement it could be a 29mm metric. They do exist although not commonly used.

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Cic.

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The message from "Rick Hughes" contains these words:

I don't think it exists. If it is not 30mm I think the most likely is 1

Why are you using spanners? havn't you heard of rachets?

This might be a useful place to look

A ratchet will never do the job of a spanner, don't you know?

Dave

I'd get a suitable Metrinch socket - they fit a range of sizes. Ie the one which just fits over the nut will grip it as well as a 'proper' one.

What you quote is a ratchet spanner, not a ratchet :-))

Dave

In the larger sizes imperial spanners/sockets don't have increments of 32nds of an inch. It may be a special nut not manufactured to a normal size with a special factory tool to remove it. Either use an adjustable spanner or the

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Cic.

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Without wishing to teach Grandma to suck eggs I suppose it's also possible that due to burrs or rounding off marks on the corners of the nut you haven't measured it properly and it really is only 1.125" and a 1 1/8" spanner would tap on to it easily enough.

This takes me back to when I borrowed my brothers trailer and one of the wheel nuts came off. All wheel nuts seem to be a standard metric thread, except this one. As a stop gap I fitted a conventional unf nut but still needed to get the correct nut with tapered seat. I tried everywhere until a bit of detective work with my brother determined that he had bought the trailer off some guy who used to work for New Holland in Aylesbury. Putting 2 and 2 together the guy had obviously made the trailer from bits and pieces at work and after a visit to an agricultural supplier somewhere in the wilds of Cambridgeshire I found the correct nut that fitted a Massey Ferguson tractor.

kevin

I bought a 1 1/8" AF and it fits OK .,.... so that was the boy. Just wish it wasn't =A314 + vat for one spanner !