I know what you mean, try carrying around two full sets of tools on a truck. My beef, beyond that, is that standard fasteners typically use either an SAE or USS hex size (ie in the case of nuts, either standard or 'barn door nuts' as I call them). That said standard means just that and rarely do you find anything but standard in use unless it's in a special application. Throw in the standard course and fine pitches and your left with 4 choices when it comes to a typical fastener.
On the other hand I can take a metric threaded fastener and have three or four bolts of the same thread size sitting there and all of them have different head sizes. Now there's one bolt size that might take a 15, 16, 17, or 18 mm hex wrench to take it loose. Throw in the fine and course pitch and now ther's a choice of 8 different fasteners. Where does this make anything easier when you've got a machine torn down and two or more of the the hex sizes of the heads and the two pitches are used indiscriminately throughout the machine, for the same 'sized' fastener????? I've never figured it out, is the size based on where it's made, the whim of the engineer, just plain stupidity, or a combination of them all????
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