31 May
2005
31 May
'05
5:48 p.m.
On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 01:05 +0100, Tony Duell wrote:
Are you suggesting that every Bristol Spline screw in
every machine
(5155s, Datamasters, IBM typewriters, Friden Flexowriters, etc) should be
replaced now, just in case you can't get the right tool in the future.
My 2p on that one... in a word, no. I wouldn't do it on something that
used lots of them. But it makes more sense to do it one a machine that
only uses two or three of them where the original reason for them being
there has gone away.
We may well even have a set of bristol spline tools at the museum (I was
taking this IBM apart at home at the time) - we do have a couple of
flexowriters (although no equipment actively using them). Of course the
Colossus uses one too, which suggests that their team probably have a
set (given the large amount of sponsorship they have, that seems highly
likely)
cheers
Jules