[OT - Crescent Wrench] - Re: 8.10b - first impression and questions

[Derek Broughton]

Thorny wrote:

> On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:47:09 -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
>> A New Jersey man bought the house next door, which has a mysterious
>> second story door into space, and since he was renting it out he needed
>> to secure
>> the door so that renters wouldn't kill themselves.  He showed us how his
>> carpenter had installed "special security screws" fastening the door into
>> the jamb.  We laughed ourselves silly before telling him that those were
>> Robertson screws, with drivers available at every local hardware store
>> :-)
> 
> Chuckle! Yes, I know a few people from the USA who have never seen a
> Robertson screw. It does make them a bit like a security screw in those
> instances, if one doesn't have a Robertson screwdriver or the correct size
> square bar stock to turn it. Jamming a slotted screwdriver, or a Phillips
> with a lot of force sometimes works but not always. They sure stay on a
> bit well for power driving though, doesn't even have to be magnetic, I
> love them, eh?

Yes - but I go through a lot of power-driver bits. Drive the screw, pull
back the power driver, and the bit stays on the screw just long enough to
disconnect from the driver - then falls on the ground and disappears.
-- 
derek