Take a look at your toolbox, will ya?

[gybe]

Hello!

I am just in a middle of my side-project and I am rebuilding our old Briggs & Stratton 4-stroke lawnmower engine. The thing is that there are several bolts on the cylinder and around the flywheel which are kinda awkward. 6mm socket is too small, 7mm is too big. Is there anything that's app. 6.5mm? Converted to inches this would be app. 1/4''. Does a socket like this exist? I mean ratchet sockets.

If there's no solution I'll be sacrificing one of the socket and use it the reverse way since it's around 1/4''.

This just sucks and the guy in the tool store almost accused me of being stupid that I have found a bolt that has 6.5mm head.

[therieldeal]

probably 1/4"...

6mm = .236"

7mm = .276"

.250" is right in the middle...

[superdave]

1/4" sockets do exist. May not be common in a tool-set though...

[therieldeal]

idk why it would be uncommon....

[superdave]

idk why it would be uncommon....

Not sure either, but I was guessing it might be not so common since he doesn't have one... I never have a reason to use imperial so idk!

[MazKid]

I have a few 6.5mm sockets that I've found in various cars, cheapo sockets but they do exist.

[gybe]

I was just looking at Briggs & Stratton webpage and they mention 1/4'' sockets in their product intro videos. Damn, for the first time in my life I am not happy with the metric system.

[martiniac]

6.5 mm sockets do definitely exist. Briggs & Stratton is an American company. At least when I owned one 5 or so years ago you would be very hard pressed to find anything metric on them at all. This may have changed with the rampant globalization but I have my doubts. All the Briggs engine parts should use standard measurements.

[sube]

Since we are talking about sockets here, SAE hasn't been used in years, all cars are now Metric. My question, why are socket sets still sold Metric and SAE.at least in Canada you don't have the option all sockets sets come with both.

Pat.

[therieldeal]

thats a great question. craftsman has those nice plastic cases with a spot for every tool to go... problem is its half SAE so you dont get many box wrenches. if they would do all metric it would have every tool i'd ever need.... ugh.

[jasoncsprotege]

another option is take a look at ratcheting screw drivers, they are normally 1/4" drive, so if it is a 1/4" head bolt your 1/4" drive ratcheting screw driver should work. Also it is the same adapter for your screw bits for your electric drill (at least here in the states)
Jason

[MazdaNoob]

yeah any universal bit screwdriver will be 1/4. ive had to use them many times to get me by when i lost my 1/4 nutdriver. all the appliances made by north american companies still all use SAE fastners. all the european machines i work on use metric as well as the korean

[mazdaboy1974]

Mine at work is the Catch-all .