You've got to be sure to use a metric adjustable wrench. Same thing with Vise Grips.

 

Not to be a dumb ***, besides the squid thing. I don't own a adjustable wrench. While i have owned JAP" vehicles since first motorcyle at 7yrs old. My truck 05 tundra, wife's car 07' nissan altma, then you can read the bike list-ALL vehicle carry a bag with 8mm, 10mm,12mm,14mm,17mm,19mm combination wrench. On a bet I believe you can disassemble most JAP" items with this selection....

 

Hows?

 

My Craftsman wrenches are marked with metric sizes....+1 RK1

 

You're a lucky bugger. We lost all our storeman and maintenance guys a long time ago. So these days as well as teach, prepare lessons and do the admin, we have to try and keep a track of the tools, keep all the teaching resources serviced and or repaired. This can all be quite time consuming, as one of the main standards of the qualification package here is that the training must be "inclusive". That just means that regardless of any special needs of the student, we need to have a learning strategy that allows them to participate. This ensures that at some stage you will have classes that can be difficult to manage, and that damage will occur to equipment.

In my stage one class I make all my students use a tension wrench on just about everything they undo or do up. I feel this lets them experience just how tight a fastener should be. Most people tend to over tighten them by default, and they are very surprised just how lightly some bolts need to be done up.

 

I have full sets of both AF and Metric, with a few Witworth sizes thrown in. These days I don't use the AF stuff as much. Most of our stuff is metric. Witworth is fairly rare, but it does still pop up in some specialised equipment.