I had some new satellite thingies delivered last week. Against my better judgement I read the instruction manual which tells how to assemble the damn things (rather like a huge Meccano set) and lists in which order to tighten the mate bolts.
As I was going to the DIY shop today, I bought a load of mate spanners as I loose tools faster than brain cells. Got them home, ripped-off all the plastic anti-theft packaging (which was an exercise in itself) only to find that an mate bolt has a 13mm head and needs 13mm spanners.
Um, I thought metric was supposed to make things easy? A ?? A/F bolt needs a ?? spanner, not a ?? or some other bizarre, random size.
