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Old Dec 10, 2012 | 09:18 PM
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I thought maybe you had pissed of a little person.
 
Old Dec 10, 2012 | 09:26 PM
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We need to find whoever invented the damn things and drag him around the block a few times. They have to be most user unfriendly fastener I've ever come across.
 
Old Dec 10, 2012 | 09:50 PM
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Originally Posted by machinistmate
We need to find whoever invented the damn things and drag him around the block a few times. They have to be most user unfriendly fastener I've ever come across.
Yeah this, and the guy that decided to put manholes in the middle of the damn road!!!!
 
Old Dec 10, 2012 | 09:56 PM
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Originally Posted by OldMike
You, sir, went too far.

You assume too much. I didn't strip one but its a p.i.a. to have to be that careful when better fasteners could have been used.
 
Old Dec 11, 2012 | 03:56 AM
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I like them better than the ole Flat heads.. but still I'd take a good Allen head over them.



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