It's cool to get educated on the list :o) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Howard Winter" To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2007 6:52 AM Subject: Re: [OT] Units rant > Rich, > > On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:52:18 -0400, Rich wrote: > >> Is spanner the Brit name for wrench, like open end or box wrench or >> perhaps >> crescent wrench? > > Well it's the *English* word for it... I don't think it's just Britain > that uses it :-) > > Wrench tends to be used for the less precision tools, like Stillson or > pipe wrenches, whereas spanner usually means precision devices like > open-ended > or ring spanners. I think what you call a "crescent wrench" we call an > "adjustable spanner" (the swedish company Bahco makes some very nice, very > expensive ones - most of the others aren't terribly good and tend to have > so much slop that they are very likely to round off a nut that needs a > high > force to undo it). > > Cheers, > > > Howard Winter > St.Albans, England > > > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist