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Date:         Tue, 2 Dec 2003 11:44:21 -0800
Reply-To:     Jeffrey Schwaia <jeff@TSSGI.COM>
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From:         Jeffrey Schwaia <jeff@TSSGI.COM>
Subject:      Re: drilling out axle bolts / Tool Lexicon
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Perhaps they're right. Let's start calling Torx bits "double triangles", after all, two times three _is_ six. How about changing Phillips head to X-drive? The list goes on.

I wasn't saying people didn't use the term. I was saying it's crap. Too many people/companies want to confuse things by giving them unique names.

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and smells like a duck... it's a duck!

Does anyone know if a "tri-square" fits a "shear-bolt"???

Cheers,

Jeff

-----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf Of George Goff Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 6:42 AM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Re: drilling out axle bolts / Tool Lexicon

In a message dated 12/2/03 2:22:44 AM, jeff@TSSGI.COM writes:

<< Where did this tri-square crap come from?>> I know this is far fetched, but could it possibly be a contraction of triple square?

<<Snap-On calls it a 12 point. >> We'll have to let them know that so they can edit their catalogue.

<<Hazet calls it a 12 point.>> No, to them it would be an Innenvielzahnschraubendreher. Gotta love those Kraut words; lots of letters, but no confusion.

<<Even Sears calls it a 12 point.>> Incorrecto. In the Sears Associates Training Manual, Vol. II, their clerks are instructed to call it, and I quote, a "twelve point thingie".

George


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