24 Sep
2013
24 Sep
'13
12:47 p.m.
On Tue, 24 Sep 2013, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 09/24/2013 06:02 AM, David Riley wrote:
The reason I asked about this is because I'm getting increasingly annoyed
with philips screws.
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David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
On the other hand, if you don't need the
cheese or button heads,
McMaster has T15 6-32x1/4" pan head screws for 6.22 per 100,
which doesn't seem like a terrible price to me. Aside from some
visual finish, what's the advantage of a button/cheese head?
If you're working on a piece of older Compaq gear, the cheese head is part of
the slide-in mounting system for the disk drives. That is, the cheese head
forms the protrusion that slides in the groove of a plastic guide.
That being said, ordinary slotted cheese-head 6-32 screws will work fine--the
only thing lost is the Torx feature.
HP also used some Torx-washer-head screws on some of its hard drive mounting
kits.