I hate replying to my own posts, but EUREKA! On the site I linked to in the
previous post, scroll down to the eight wing fastner and you will actually find
a reference to Robertson.
Walt
--
"Anything more than 500 yards from
the car just isn't photogenic." --
Edward Weston
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: hiwayman@xxxxxxx (Walt Wayman)
> I never heard of a Robertson fastener until this all got started. Must be a
> closely-kept secret of the Frozen North. I mean, the folks up there tend to
> call a house a hoose and pronounce "about" like one of those things I wear
> one
> per foot when I go hoofing it off road. No telling what they call a good
> screw.
>
> I strongly suspect that it's nothing more than what we in the warmer world
> call
> square drive. In fact, if you do a search for "Robertson" on the site I
> linked
> to, you are taken to the square drive tips, but there's no acknowledgment of
> any
> "Robertson" anything. And it seems there's no connection whatsoever between
> Phillips and Robertson. They look to be two entirely different things,
> assuming
> one even really exists.
>
> See here for a more comprehensive listing:
>
> http://www.lara.com/cgi-bin/store/commerce.cgi?cart_id=520524.8174&detailpage=sc
> rewtypes
>
> Walt
>
> --
> "Anything more than 500 yards from
> the car just isn't photogenic." --
> Edward Weston
>
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: "Simon Worby" <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Walt wrote:
> >
> > > http://www.lara.com/cgi-bin/store/commerce.cgi?product=specialty_bits
> >
> > That looks more comprehensive.
> >
> > Now can someone tell me which of them Robertson is supposed to be, since
> > I'm
> now
> > intrigued?
> >
> > Simon
> >
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