Originally Posted by
Rod Sheridan
Ted, as you’re aware, most of the tooling in the world is metric.
That can result in premium prices for oddball tools such as Whitworth or Imperial.
You’ve also left out a lot of the fractional wrench sizes which increment in 32nds of an inch, so your comparison isn’t actually factual.
I would have to spread both sets out and count them, however I have approximately the same quantity of wrenches and sockets in both my Metric and Imperial sets.
I may even have more in the several British sets it requires to have a complete array......Regards, Rod