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Vito
 
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Default Sailing and Cars

"Mys Terry" wrote
Fitting a fastener "okay" is not how good mechanics do things.


Can't speak for Scotty but I wrenched in Brit car dealerships for over five
years and was "good" enough that customers followed me from shop to shop. A
"set" of wrenches of a given type (US, Metric) includes literally 100s of
individual wrenches and sockets costing the equivalent of thousands of todays
dollars. Few, if any, pro mechanics had complete BS wrench sets, even those of
us specializing on Brit cars and bikes. We knew which bolts needed BS
(Whitworth) wrenches and only bought those wrenches.