Re: atari hex key tool

From: Michael Thomas <thomin_at_bellsouth.net>
Date: Sat Dec 28 2002 - 01:03:39 EST

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From: "Christopher X. Candreva" <chris@westnet.com>
To: <vectorlist@synthcom.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 28, 2002 12:06 AM
Subject: Re: VECTOR: atari hex key tool

>
> Just to make things more complicated . . . I bought a screwdriver bit set
> at Home Depot for like $10 a few years ago, with an adaptor for a regular
> power drill, though it works in an electric screwdriver too.
>
> It has Alan, torx, and "Robertson" bits, plus plain old screwdrivers,
> philips, and some other funky thing that look like philips, but aren't.
If
> you are trying to open your, for example, Technics 110 disk CD changer and
> your philips screwdriver keeps slipping out of the screw because the hole
is
> just to shallow, you need these bits.
>
> My star wars didn't have security anything (I think they wre regular
alan),
> but I usually just drill the silly posts out of the center and use a
regular
> alan or torx or whatever anyway.

Exactly! Or a well-placed twist from the side of the "silly post" by a
jeweler's screwdriver will also work (from my experience).

Michael Thomas

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