Perhaps they're right.  Let's start calling Torx bits "double triangles",
after all, two times three _is_ six.  How about changing Phillips head to
X-drive?  The list goes on.

I wasn't saying people didn't use the term.  I was saying it's crap.  Too
many people/companies want to confuse things by giving them unique names.

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and smells like a duck... it's a
duck!

Does anyone know if a "tri-square" fits a "shear-bolt"???

Cheers,

Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf
Of George Goff
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 6:42 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: drilling out axle bolts / Tool Lexicon

In a message dated 12/2/03 2:22:44 AM, jeff@TSSGI.COM writes:

<< Where did this tri-square crap come from?>>  I know this is far fetched,
but could it possibly be a contraction of triple square?

<<Snap-On calls it a 12 point. >>  We'll have to let them know that so they
can edit their catalogue.

<<Hazet calls it a 12 point.>>  No, to them it would be an
Innenvielzahnschraubendreher.  Gotta love those Kraut words; lots of
letters, but no confusion.

<<Even Sears calls it a 12 point.>>  Incorrecto.  In the Sears Associates
Training Manual, Vol. II, their clerks are instructed to call it, and I
quote, a
"twelve point thingie".

George