RE: [ST] large sockets

[Bil Swartz <bil@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Cunningham Andrew wrote:

> > Does anyone have a source of large sockets, such as the 
> > 48mm needed for the rear wheel nut? 
> 
> I think you'll find it's a 46mm that you want for the rear wheel.  So it's
> probably a good job that you haven't found one yet, because you would have
> wasted your money!

Mebbe I got it crossed up with the VFR wheel nut, need both anyway!

The Haynes book mentions that a 1 and 13/16th will do too, but I was
always under the impression that metrics and english measures should never
be substituted as they are just off by enough to cause you to round off
the points.  

So what are they, metric or english?


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