11mm spanners .

[fastbob]

Not having the luxury of a workshop I have to keep all my tools including my spanners in a toolbox. I don't know about you guys but I am sick of picking up a 10mm spanner only to find that its actually an 11mm spanner. Someone will prove me wrong but I absolutely cannot think of any possible use for an 11mm spanner on a motorbike. So I finally decided to sort my spanners out and to my astonishment I discovered that I am the owner of no less than eleven of the useless bloody things ! So this got me thinking that assuming I've never deliberately bought an individual 11mm spanner, I must , over 40 years have bought at least eleven spanner sets ! Anyway, I've finally rounded them all up and zip tied them together so they can plague me no more.Good riddance!

[Hoggs]

Someone will prove me wrong but I absolutely cannot think of any possible use for an 11mm spanner on a motorbike

 

When you have a 10mm nut but it's rusted up to 11mm

[anth_85]

Someone will prove me wrong but I absolutely cannot think of any possible use for an 11mm spanner on a motorbike

 

When you have a 10mm nut but it's rusted up to 11mm

 

or you have a rounded off 12mm where you have to hammer on an 11mm

[Fozzie]

When you've dropped the 12mm into the engine bay out of reach so you grind the face of the bolt down so the 11 fits.

[Westbeef]

M7 Nuts, hex heads etc are 11mm across flats, however M7 is a special thread anyway and you aint going to find that on anything at home

[Gerontious]

I must , over 40 years have bought at least eleven spanner sets !

 

Thats a spanner set every 3 and a half years.. I think you need to question your buying choices. Buy cheap buy twice (and then some.)

[fastbob]

I must , over 40 years have bought at least eleven spanner sets !

 

Thats a spanner set every 3 and a half years.. I think you need to question your buying choices. Buy cheap buy twice (and then some.)

I don't actually think I have bought so many spanner sets but I was just musing upon how I could have ended up with so many 11mm spanners . I once worked for a shop that sold Teng Tools that had very poor stock control

[Via]

My car has 11mm bleed nipples apart from that can't think of a time I've ever come across one either.

Annoyingly though I've come across 16mm heads quite a lot on cars and lots of sets tend to skip that one!

And 7mm hex bits, most common size for calipers and never comes in a set!

[anth_85]

And 7mm hex bits, most common size for calipers and never comes in a set!

 

I thought that, until I went to do the rear brakes on my XC60 and they turned out to be a 9mm, obviously that wasn't in any set I had either

[iangaryprice]

I've never used 11mm on a bike, but as some one has already commented its a common size on car bleed nipples.

I know what you mean about 7mm A/F allen keys, I have several sets amd only one has a 7mm in it, and I use it quite often!

[Mr Fro]

I thought that, until I went to do the rear brakes on my XC60 and they turned out to be a 9mm, obviously that wasn't in any set I had either

 

It's always the same - you positively know you've got every tool you could possibly need until you're an hour in to a job and find the one fitting you don't have a tool for.

If it makes you feel any better, I got caught out by the 9mm hex on my V40 calipers and the spline bits needed to take the hub off.

[Stu]

I have used an 11mm on a bike before today

At the time I thought it was odd!!

I'm pretty sure that it had been replaced and wasn't original!

[Snod Blatter]

The bleed nipples on my K100 are 11mm, though you could possibly class it as at least part car

[cockercas]

Pretty sure brembo M/c bleed nipples are 11mm