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Originally Posted by tangofox007
If you are using a 12-point wrench, it makes absolutely no difference whether the bolt head has six points or twelve. The wrench still has to move 30 degrees for the next "bite."
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Now you've put my mind in a geometric funk. There has to be 30 degrees of total movement, but can't half the movement be in the nut and half in the wrench? In other words, you can get increments of 15 degrees with twelve point nut and twelve point wrench but only 30 degrees with a six point nut and a twelve point wrench?
The intuitive feel of removing those bolts told me I could get much smaller increments of movement than with a 6 point bolt.