11mm spanners .

Not having the luxury of a workshop I have to keep all my tools including my spanners in a toolbox. I don't know about you guys but I am sick of picking up a 10mm spanner only to find that its actually an 11mm spanner. Someone will prove me wrong but I absolutely cannot think of any possible use for an 11mm spanner on a motorbike. So I finally decided to sort my spanners out and to my astonishment I discovered that I am the owner of no less than eleven of the useless bloody things ! So this got me thinking that assuming I've never deliberately bought an individual 11mm spanner, I must , over 40 years have bought at least eleven spanner sets ! Anyway, I've finally rounded them all up and zip tied them together so they can plague me no more.Good riddance!

Someone will prove me wrong but I absolutely cannot think of any possible use for an 11mm spanner on a motorbike

When you have a 10mm nut but it's rusted up to 11mm

Someone will prove me wrong but I absolutely cannot think of any possible use for an 11mm spanner on a motorbike

 

When you have a 10mm nut but it's rusted up to 11mm

or you have a rounded off 12mm where you have to hammer on an 11mm

When you've dropped the 12mm into the engine bay out of reach so you grind the face of the bolt down so the 11 fits.

M7 Nuts, hex heads etc are 11mm across flats, however M7 is a special thread anyway and you aint going to find that on anything at home

I must , over 40 years have bought at least eleven spanner sets !

Thats a spanner set every 3 and a half years.. I think you need to question your buying choices. Buy cheap buy twice (and then some.)

I must , over 40 years have bought at least eleven spanner sets !

 

Thats a spanner set every 3 and a half years.. I think you need to question your buying choices. Buy cheap buy twice (and then some.)

I don't actually think I have bought so many spanner sets but I was just musing upon how I could have ended up with so many 11mm spanners . I once worked for a shop that sold Teng Tools that had very poor stock control

My car has 11mm bleed nipples apart from that can't think of a time I've ever come across one either.

Annoyingly though I've come across 16mm heads quite a lot on cars and lots of sets tend to skip that one!

And 7mm hex bits, most common size for calipers and never comes in a set!

And 7mm hex bits, most common size for calipers and never comes in a set!

I thought that, until I went to do the rear brakes on my XC60 and they turned out to be a 9mm, obviously that wasn't in any set I had either

I've never used 11mm on a bike, but as some one has already commented its a common size on car bleed nipples.

I know what you mean about 7mm A/F allen keys, I have several sets amd only one has a 7mm in it, and I use it quite often!

I thought that, until I went to do the rear brakes on my XC60 and they turned out to be a 9mm, obviously that wasn't in any set I had either

It's always the same - you positively know you've got every tool you could possibly need until you're an hour in to a job and find the one fitting you don't have a tool for.

If it makes you feel any better, I got caught out by the 9mm hex on my V40 calipers and the spline bits needed to take the hub off.

I have used an 11mm on a bike before today

At the time I thought it was odd!!

I'm pretty sure that it had been replaced and wasn't original!

The bleed nipples on my K100 are 11mm, though you could possibly class it as at least part car

Pretty sure brembo M/c bleed nipples are 11mm