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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Diversity - good or bad ?
Date: 12 Jan 2025 02:23:13 GMT
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On Sat, 11 Jan 2025 19:21:58 -0500, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

> On 1/11/25 2:52 PM, rbowman wrote:
>> On Sat, 11 Jan 2025 12:04:37 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> 
>>> Not a hundred different 'diverse'  screw threads depending...
>> 
>> 
>> Memories of a misguided youth working on British sports cars...
> 
>    Still have your Whitworth set ?  :-)

I never had Whitworth tools although I did have to buy the fasteners from 
a shop that specialized in Brit cars.

It did bite me a couple of times. For installing the distributor drive 
pinion the manual was very specific about using a particular length of 
screw in the drilled and tapped hole, I'll say 2 1/2". I didn't have one 
that long so I used a shorter one. The extra length was so you didn't drop 
the whole mess into the sump. I hadn't put oil in the crankcase at that 
point but there were a lot of little cap screws holding the sump cover on 
to retrieve the pinion.

What I do have are several sets of metric and SAE wrenches. Both the Ford 
and the Harley go metric in the strangers places. At least the Suzuki 
bikes  and the Toyota are 100% metric.

Then there are the Torx drivers, the weird little drivers used in 
electronics stuff that are close but no cigar. Damn them all to the fires 
of hell, starting with Harley. They use #25 and #27 Torx screws. #25 is 
just the right size to strip out a #27 head and a lot of the Torx sets 
skip #27.