At 07:30 AM 14/04/2009 +0100, kevin sayles wrote:
>Just wondering.....why is the Campag crank bolt spanner [wrench] called a
>'peanut butter' wrench?
>I like peanut butter, but I never think of crank bolts etc when eating it!
>
>Is there any other food terms attached to bike bits?
>Harden 'bacon slicer hubs' perhaps?
Don't you wear a cheese cutter on your head when it rains and wrap it up with your tools in your cape when it stops?
(But getting back to metric equivalent wrenches, I remember not having any metric sizes back in the 1960s when I tried to rebuild a Czech motorcycle out of a basket. I found that many were covered by SAE sizes in a pinch, but I had to go out and buy 10mm and 12mm sockets. This collection served me well for decades.)
John Betmanis
Woodstock, Ontario
Canada