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Originally Posted by redpoint5
I've often thought it's silly how many custom parts there are for vehicles. Why are there so many brake pad/rotor combinations? How many differently designed steering wheels do we need? How about wheel diameter, width, offset...?
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You think that’s bad in most given sizes of SAE Hex head bolts there are exactly two standards outside material and finish
Every 5/8” coarse thread works with every other one and uses the same socket and wrench
An m16 Metric hex head comes in dozens of standards with at least 3 different wrench and socket combinations, many times you can not install “correctly “ one metric standard nut onto a different standard bolt of the same size/thread and usually you need a different wrench and socket for the nut vrs the stud side within the same standard.
Piss poor engineering and standardization on metric hardware
And If we can’t even fix hardware to work together , how could we ever fix standardization of larger components?