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Well, heres the ironic news, Much of the Harley Davidson bikes are now bolted together with metric and SAE fasteners.

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I remember taking a set of my father's older set of SAE open-end wrenches that he had given to me, and grinding and filing a few of their openings in order to fit the size of the bolt heads and nuts on that ol' Beezer.

(...I guess I was just too cheap to go out and purchase a set of Whitworth wrenches...but then again, supermarket boxboys didn't pull in a whole lot o' money back then, ya know)

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HUH. Your family must have had MONEY! We was pouh folk. Visegrips and crescent wrenchs!

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Visegrips and cresent wrenches?Luxury! We used to dream of Visegrips and cresent wrenches!We used to use spanners carved from wood!

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Wood? WOOD? We used to dream of wooden spanners!
When we had the money, we used to make paper mache spanners.
And we considered ourselves lucky to be able to do so!

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Money?Paper mache?Luxury! We used to dream of having money, and paper mache.We used to work 25 hours a day down pit for nothing and make spanners out of coal dust!