Originally posted by monochrome Metric sockets I can deal with but that (inevitable) ONE star shaped fastener really Torx me off.
Originally posted by THoog I had to get a piece of equipment out of a server rack yesterday, only to find that someone had installed it with hex screws (the kind you have to use a hex key or "Allen wrench" on). We have dozens of systems in those racks, all installed by the same guys, and that's the only one like that. We don't even have a set of Allen wrenches in the toolbox, so I don't know how/why they did it that way; it had to have been harder than just getting some regular screws out of the enormous box we have for just that purpose. I had to get wrenches from home, and I made sure I chucked the screws in the trash when I was done.
Originally posted by MarkJerling To prevent this problem, I've bought some years ago a full set of bits - hex, torx, etc. Including the "security" types, like the three sided Philips, torx and hex with a pin in the centre, etc.
I have them all. In bits that fit my ratcheting Snap-On screwdrivers. In 3/8" and 1/2" drive sockets. You name it, I've got it. There is nothing that I cannot take apart.
Putting things back together may be another matter though.
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