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Subject: Re: [M]: [m]: RA Drive, allan key size
From: Bill Arnett
Reply To: mapug@shore.net
Date: Thu May 27 21:34:42 1999
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At 8:52 PM -0700 5/27/99, Ric L Ecker wrote:
>>allen key is between the two sizes 1/8 and 5/32. Does anyone know the
>>correct allen key size? My scope is from 1992, 8". As a last resort I
>>can grind down a metric allan key, but I would rather like to get the
>>rigth allan key.
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>The only size left between 1/8" and 5/32 is a 9/64" which is common but
>not in all sets of allens......................ric
Gack! Don't you wish we had enough sense to go metric? 9/64! Good
grief. 3.5mm is so much easier.
(Quick quiz; don't compute, just answer without thinking: which is
bigger 21/32" or 5/8"? Now try again: 4.5 mm or 5 mm?)
Bill Arnett
http://www.seds.org/billa/
"Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself." -- Richard Feynman
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