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If you've ever worked on a modern car, you'd know the importance of the 10mm wrench. Maybe they had some Toyota guys consult on the ISS.

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I love 10mm wrenches so much I bought a Japanese motorcycle :P I do so much better with whole numbers than fractions.

As well as the 10mm wrench, you may find it useful to have a 1cm spanner.

Or a metric Crescent wrench.

I know this is really tangential, but one of my favorite lines from cartoons as a kid was from an episode of Pinky and the Brain and it included this kind of wordplay.

Their plan included forming a grunge band, which they called "Frog the Dry Widget" (a play on Toad the Wet Sproket).

Context, possibly: https://youtu.be/2jlxO6s5N6Q?si=7iled4EV7nWWyb-A

Hadn't seen that one, but it is a bit of a meme. I'm not joking about working on cars though - my 2001 Toyota Corolla was full of 10mm bolts, and I have on occasion needed to pick one up from the hardware store only to find an empty spot between the 9mm and 11mm sockets.

Honda dirtbikes were almost exclusively 10mm, which was handy, because you can carry a very limited set of tools/parts and fix basically everything aside from running out of gas.

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