============ Found all the time at Automobile swap meets etc.... tables after tables of wrenches screw drivers etc.... majority of wrenches are Craftsman for some reason... but all priced at 2 bucks or under normally....3/8 in flare wrench that my son "borrowed" then lost was replaced for $1.50 Sears price was 18 bucks just for that wrench...
Well, I found a couple of cheap wrenches. I was on eBay and saw a couple of jumbos. One is a 1-1/2, 1-3/8" open end, and the other is a
1-5/8, 1-7/16" open end. Both are "Blue-Point". I bought the two of them for $30 delivered to my door.
So now the arbor nut is off of the RAS (as well as everything else - it's fully disassembled now). The wrenches seem, well, very wrench-like. These suckers are heavy. While there's no mention of Snap-On on them at all, it looks like Snap-On uses the term Blue Point on some of their tools. IAE, if I bought them new at the price listed on the Snap-On website they'd cost me over $300!!! (Craftsman would be around $75).
I'm wondering if they were really his dad's now, what with "Paul" being etched on each of them.
Whitworth was a thread form designed specifically for use in cast iron (as there was little else in use at the time). So even in the modern world, it still has a use. Under 1/2", it's the same as UNC (within a whisker). If you tap metric threads into cast iron you can often have problems with poor thread form or thread stripping (the coarse metric series is rarer than Whitworth).
Whitworth / BSF (British Standard Fine) have much the same relation as UNC / UNF. Although I maintain a full set of Whitworth tools and do still use them, the BSF kit is just there for historical reasons. I remember my Dad hauling scrap brand-new BSF tap and die sets by the ton load a few decades ago.
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