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

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 10 October 2008, Derek Broughton wrote:
>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.

Chuckle.  Sounds like you need to set your lawn mower a little lower, or use 
it more often. :)  Like you, I've dropped many a bit, but I usually can find 
it too.

>--
>derek



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