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Re: modified Torx

To: Lee Daniels <lee@automate-it.com>
Subject: Re: modified Torx
From: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 17:54:34 -0500
Lee Daniels wrote:
> I regularly come across fasteners that have a Torx-type recess in the head,
> but with an irritating modification. Right in the middle of the hole,
> there's a raised "pin".  This effectively keeps you from using a regular
> Torx key to remove the fastener.  I'm guessing that there's a modified Torx
> wrench that has a hole in it that allows you to insert the key into the
> hole.  Am I making sense?
> 
> Anyway, just looking at non-specialist tool places (Sears, Lowe's, etc.)
> there's certainly nothing like this.  Any ideas on where to get a small set
> of these tools?

   They are called tamper-proof bits, or something like that.

   Once you know the name, they aren't hard to find. Canadian Tire (big 
chain) sells them here, for example.

   A set of bits is a couple of dollars.

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Trevor Boicey, P. Eng.
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