Back in the old wild UAW days in Detroit when workers were unhappy with the company they reportedly would put tools, bolts, nuts in parts of the car so they would cause a rattle,

Might be you got a UAW socket and luck it rolled into a spot it wouldn't rattle..

Decades ago I asked my Ford dealer to install a radio in my Pinto. I assumed that I’d be getting a Ford or Motorola radio. But they put in a cheap off-brand model. I was pissed. So when I found a nice Bluepoint 1/2”-9/16” closed-end wrench on the floor I kept it.

I still have it. An excellent wrench with very thin walls that allow it to get in to tight spots.

My initial thought without even opening or reading the thread: 10mm socket.....just saying.

I know I have at least a half dozen 10mm sockets and deep sockets around but the 10mm Gremlin seems to steal them.

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Originally posted by PHPaul:
The one I had in my hand 2 minutes ago, dammit!

Yup, the dammit tool. I lose that one all the time.

Lemme know if you see my Snap On 9/16” combination wrench lying around; the S-K Wayne 9/16 lying among all that polished chrome steel sets me on edge every time I open that drawer.

A dwell meter or a choke angle gauge?

Try finding one of those now.

I always have an extra 7mm instead. You can't take a dash apart without one.

Many years ago I found a pair of Snap-On channel locks just laying in the middle of the road. Still have them and use them.

I assume someone forgot and left them on a bumper or on the engine and they eventually fell off.

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Originally posted by John Steed:
Many years ago I found a pair of Snap-On channel locks just laying in the middle of the road. Still have them and use them.

I assume someone forgot and left them on a bumper or on the engine and they eventually fell off.

I have outfitted a pretty complete "roadside assistance" tool kit for the back of my squad car out of random tools I've found in the road.

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Originally posted by cslinger:
Bwahahahaha I literally read the title and said 10mm socket.

Yep, same here!

I guess I need new glasses. I don't see anything that looks like a socket in the picture.

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Originally posted by gjgalligan:
I guess I need new glasses. I don't see anything that looks like a socket in the picture.

Deep well, laying on its side, just under the silver vacuum controller/switch or whatever that is.

Next to the wire connector marked "blue" without anything that looks like a blue wire on it, so assuming that was the color on the radio!

Scouts Honor..Bought a Jeep off the neighbor. He said he lost a socket in the cab and if I found it could I give it back, of course I would. Project to pull the seats and carpet and there it was a 10mm socket!

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....and if I found it could I give it back, of course I would.

I 100% would have bought one that day and given it to him with a "it was right there!".

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Originally posted by Georgeair:
What year Mustang? Having a 10mm in there if old suggests something else I think.

The humble 10mm socket doesn’t not discriminate between foreign or domestic, late model or classic.

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Decades ago I asked my Ford dealer to install a radio in my Pinto.

Humble brag.

1977, Six months out of college, I changed jobs. New position was at a 3rd party inspection company. One first assignment was to monitor loading of a large group of mobile homes on freighter bound to Venezuela for Exxon out of the Port of Houston. As I checked various units, I checked on one with a slightly open door. Just inside was a well used claw hammer. I still have that hammer.

Funny observation: when the first shift stevedore crew started loading, they first made a couple benches from the dunnage or cribbing materials used, to rest on throughout their shift.

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Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:
Decades ago I asked my Ford dealer to install a radio in my Pinto.

Damn, you went high-end! I wired a RadioShack radio/cassette player into mine. '74 wagon in shit brown. Now that was a great car. I called it "home" for a time during my misspent youth.

Back in the day it was 9/16", now it's 10mm.