I never lecture, do what you want. I offer my experience, take it or leave it.
My 1st metric wrenches were as I needed them for car repair. I early on got a basic set from Sears, all American inch, socket sets and wrenches and as I bought another car, added as I went along.
My 1st metric adventures. other than cars, was the Chinese 3-in-1 Shoptask and everything on that machine is metric, so I had to exponentially (just a catch phrase word) increased my combination wrenches, usually Sears Crafstman and I also got a set of ignition combination wrench set that does me nicely. Also increased my metric sockets accumulation.
Why I joined this (your) Yahoo! Group was support for my Grizzly version of the Super X3 mill. That machine came with a lot of its own metric tooling provided, though their tooling suffices, it is crap.
Then as family has died off, I have inherited tools up my gazoo! It is true, any descent mechanic can do other things mechanical, and one can never have enough tools.
For the minature stuff I like the "Garrett Wade" catalog, but more specifically I like the "Micro-Mark" catalog.
On the subject of catalogs, for tool-making, Penn Tool Co. :
http://www.penntoolco.com/ has expensive items for the precision stuff. I got the Kurt Mfg. 6" mill vise on sale from them. Why I bought my Super X3 was as support for this vise, as it was too heavy for my Shoptask. The Super X3 does better with the Smithy 4 inch vise, Kurt copy, but no way is it as good as a Kurt. Kurt Mfg.'s 4 inch vise is expensive and rarely on sale because few buy it.
One jobbing shop I worked, a power company crew brought in a really big, open-ended wrench that had to be milled oversize wider for their special application---that day. At the time, 1985, minimum job was $100 an hour, and $100 minimum that 1st hour any portion of it unless we had a steady customer.
Kurt
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--- In GrizHFMinimill@yahoogroups.com, "Tony Smith" <ajsmith1968@...> wrote:
>
> > If the wrenches were to be off by 0.03 mm or an igaging/chicom scale
> > permitted error, they will round nuts, and will not work well.
>
> Oh for crying out loud.
>
> You do know that nuts are usually made undersized, the first nut I picked up
> (nominally 13mm) measures 12.78mm. Oddly the cheap junk spanner is spot on
> 13mm.
>
> I guess I better not use the two together, that .22 difference is SEVEN
> TIMES what you think is acceptable, so I'll be rounding that sucker off for
> sure.
>
> Hey, if you want to spend a lot of time & money making stuff perfect, then
> go right ahead; but don't lecture the rest of us that we need to do it as
> well.
>
> Tony
>
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