Originally Posted by
baconsdozen
Thanks for the replies,thats cleared up a lot of confusion (well for me anyway).In the UK SAE tools are generally called AF (across flats) we also liked in the past to complicate things by having tools in British standard whitworth (BSW) and British standard fine (BSF) sizes which use the same sized spanners and sockets (although they are marked in different sizes to confuse even more) For small stuff you might also need BA tools (British Association) these well and truly throw a spanner in the works because the tools aren't marked with sizes but numbers (0 to 11) and the smaller the number the bigger the tool!.
My old foreman would not allow anyone to use an adjustable spanner and more than once raided tool boxes and threw the ones he found out of the window.We used to scuttle out later and collect them up again.