Torx: English or Metric?

[Belrix]

So, clearly, if I'm going to wrench on this puppy, I've got to buy a torx set. Reading some of the how-to's, I can't figure if I need to get an english or metric set. Advice, please?

-B

 

[wyliec]

metric

 

[Belrix]

Thanks!

 

[Snowbelt Spyder]

metric

Thanks!

He is putting you on. Torx are Torx. They are their own sizes beginning with a T then a number. But you WILL need a metric wrench, socket, and hex bit set.

 

[quasi]

there is also a torx plus.

 

[bmccaffrey]

Torx are torx

Metric hex head will also need

 

[Belrix]

Hmm. After being on Sear's site, there doesn't seem to be such thing as an English Torx set.

 

[Belrix]

Mertric hex I'm good with - I'm coming from a Kawisaki.

What range of Torx, then? Seems to be small sets and big ones.

 

[quasi]

there are the standard torx, and there is such a thing as a torx plus. I have both.

 

[oldgoat]

I have found I only use a Torx 30 on the body panel fasteners. I have other sizes but don't use them (that I can remember)

As others have said there are no English or Metric Torx just Torx.

I have a 1/4" drive set of #8 to #25
A 3/8" drive set of #27 to #50
A 1/2" drive set of #27 to #55

The 1/4" & 3/8" drive ones are the "security" ones with a hole in the end of the bit to fit over a knob in the Torx fastener. They work on regular Torx fasteners as well.

 

[wyliec]

Here's a sample of a metric torx screw; notice the measurements are metric. I'm not sure why others are telling you the (torx) screws on the spyder are not metric. I'll stand by my original answer.

http://www.albanycountyfasteners.co...crew-Metric-A2-SS-p/1099-010.htm?1=1&CartID=0

As far as I know, the M in the description is for metric.

Maybe I should have said the pitch and diameter are metric on the spyder.

 

[Lew L]

Torx " DRIVE"

I certianly could be wrong here but the Torx is the drive system for the machine screw thread. The thread on a Torx drive screw head can be either metric or fractional.

Fasterner confusion causes:

Kaos

 

[oldgoat]

To the best of my knowledge a Torx fastener (bolt, machine screw) can have a metric or a non metric thread but the head of said fastener accepts a Torx # drive. So you buy the same set of Torx drivers for metric or non metric fasteners.

 

[garb55]

You guys have all given me a headache and I'm not torex English or metric
I'm Italiano

 

[Highwayman2013]

What's a Kawisaki?

 

[Chupaca]

Yikes...!!

You need a set of torx there is no english, metric or sae on those. Good to have a set of metric and sae wrenches,allens and sockets. As for the english stuff...you only need one wrench..its called a cresent wrench...:roflblack::roflblack:does come in sm md and lg....

 

[pegasus1300]

If they were English you would have to know if they were Whitworth or British Standard:roflblack:

 

[Motorcycledave]

try british standard or whitworth

So, clearly, if I'm going to wrench on this puppy, I've got to buy a torx set. Reading some of the how-to's, I can't figure if I need to get an english or metric set. Advice, please?

-B

 

[Pampurrs]

Is this a serious question, or just a joke to see how many people will fall for it? :joke:

Torx is torx. A T-xx head is the same in England, Japan, Canada, or the USA.

Pam

 

[pitzerwm]

I don't know the numbers but I find that I use 3 of the torx sizes.