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2. British Association screw threads - Wikipedia

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   British Association screw threads, or BA screw threads, are a set of small screw threads, the largest being 0BA at 6 mm diameter.They were, and to some extent still are, used for miniature instruments and modelling.

3. Adjustable spanner - Wikipedia

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   An adjustable spanner (UK and most other English-speaking countries), also called a shifting spanner (Australia and New Zealand) [1] or adjustable wrench (US and Canada), [a] is any of various styles of spanner (wrench) with a movable jaw, allowing it to be used with different sizes of fastener head (nut, bolt, etc.) rather than just one fastener size, as with a conventional fixed spanner.

4. Width across flats - Wikipedia

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   The size is imprinted on the spanners in millimeter values or inch sizes with intermediate sizes in fractions (older British and current US spanners). The two systems are in general not compatible, which can result in rounding of nuts and bolts (i.e. using a 13 mm (0.51 in) spanner in place of a 1 ⁄ 2 inch (12.70 mm)).

5. Socket wrench - Wikipedia

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   Socket set with ratchet (above), four hex sockets and a universal joint. A socket wrench (or socket spanner) is a type of spanner (or wrench [1] in North American English) that uses a closed socket format, rather than a typical open wrench/spanner to turn a fastener, typically in the form of a nut or bolt.

6. British Standard Whitworth - Wikipedia

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   The across-flats definition is the common standard today, and has been for many decades. The larger spanner in this photo is from the 1920s or earlier. Its face was polished to allow the size stamp to show well in the photograph. This example is American, but it illustrates the way that spanners for Whitworth fasteners were typically labelled.

7. Sneaky Britain? How our moral compasses are changing - AOL

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   The person behind the study - Dr David Hugh-Jones, a social scientist then based at the University of East Anglia - determined that Britons, like most other nationalities, typically think their ...