Reply #18: almost right

[iverglas]

Rejecting metric is a biggie (it's so much easier to correlate an individual's personal highway speed limit to his/her IQ in metric, remember). The real problem is your failure to adopt the Robertson screwdriver.




http://www.workshopsupply.com/screws16.shtml: "The square head (Robertson) is vastly superior to any other screwdriver head. It just makes sense! A square peg into a square hole. Concentrate on turning the screw rather than trying to hold the screwdriver in the right spot so it doesn't slip out of the slot on the head of the screw. Once you use a square head (Robertson} ... you'll never use slotted again! "

Like insulin and basketball, another of those amazing Canadian inventions. ;)

We gave a set and a supply of screws to a Detroit in-law (a pipefitter by trade) a few years ago, and next thing you know he was planning cross-border raids to restock ...

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