From: Daniel J. Stern on
On Nov 4, 8:45 am, "Repairman" <repairma...(a)embarqmail.com> wrote:

> Square drive is all the rage now in appliances. First glance it looks like a
> Phillips and a Phillips might work but if it's tight no way. Robertson drive
> seems to come to mind as the official name.

Robertson is correct. It's been extremely common in Canada for many
years on wood screws, drywall screws, machine screws, and sheetmetal
screws. Works better than Philips, much better than slotted, and the
colour-coded drivers make tool selection easy on the fly.

DS

From: Nate Nagel on
Repairman wrote:
> "Matthew T. Russotto" <russotto(a)grace.speakeasy.net> wrote in message
> news:EqKdnVrdQeSZCrbanZ2dnUVZ_qCunZ2d(a)speakeasy.net...
>
>>5-sided Torx is an abomination too. I don't have any of those yet.
>>What's the point, except to get people to buy more tools?
>
>
> Big snip....
>
> Square drive is all the rage now in appliances. First glance it looks like a
> Phillips and a Phillips might work but if it's tight no way. Robertson drive
> seems to come to mind as the official name.
> More tools, better hang on to my Whitworth stuff in case it comes
> back......LOL
>
>

Yup, Robertson it is... for years and years the only place I'd seen it
was on a camper shell that my grandfather had bought back in the early
70's for the '73 Chevy pickup that my dad now owns... I think the tool
we had was actually an old Phillips screwdriver field-modified on a
bench grinder, only time it ever got used was when we mounted the camper
shell and had to tighten up the trim (was aluminum over wood frame.)
Seen it more and more lately though.

nate

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From: Nate Nagel on
Daniel J. Stern wrote:
> On Nov 2, 2:37 pm, N8N <njna...(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>>Unless I'm behind, the only glass lenses allowed are on sealed-beam
>>type headlights. Aero-style *must* be polycarbonate.
>
>
> Uh...no. Where'd this factoid come from? There has never been any such
> a requirement. Glass lenses are perfectly legal under North American
> headlamp regulations.
>
>
>>ECE regs allow
>>replaceable glass lenses
>
>
> So do US regulations.
>
> DS
>

I coulda swore that there was a FMVSS that required non-replaceable
lenses, and I've never seen a glass lens on any US-spec vehicle.

nate

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From: Nate Nagel on
Daniel J. Stern wrote:
> On Nov 3, 9:31 am, Nate Nagel <njna...(a)roosters.net> wrote:
>
>
>>According to Sylvania's web site, yes - 3157LL
>
>
> Probably because Sylvania don't supply the correct bulb, which is
> 4114K (much longer life and slightly cooler running than 3157LL).
>

Apparently GM did not either, the 3157LL was in there previously.
Unless it'd already been replaced.

nate

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From: Matthew T. Russotto on
In article <VKKdnaFaAdtVNbbanZ2dnUVZ_jydnZ2d(a)comcast.com>,
Brent P <tetraethylleadREMOVETHIS(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>In article <EqKdnVrdQeSZCrbanZ2dnUVZ_qCunZ2d(a)speakeasy.net>, Matthew T. Russotto wrote:
>
>> 5-sided Torx is an abomination too. I don't have any of those yet.
>> What's the point, except to get people to buy more tools?
>
>Camcar's patents?

Yeah, which comes down to getting people to buy more tools. I think
they claim it is more secure because authorized dealers are only
supposed to sell to authorized persons and whatnot. Which doesn't
mean I can't find them on Amazon.
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