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Figure 7 summarizes estimated thread engagement relative to the nominal fastener diameter for a number of common nut member materials. Ultimate shear strength—the material property required to estimate required thread engagement—is generally only available for common materials. However, it is often estimated as a percentage of ultimate tensile strength. While Figure 7 is based on calculations for a single thread size, the length-to-diameter ratio remains within about 5 percent across the range of fastener diameters, except at the small end (under ¼ inch or M6).

“As one means of doing more with less, we have developed a technology that will give us movement and animation without using a motor and related gearboxes and controller circuitry,” adds Lund. “We struggle to get actions that once required two DC motors now with just one.”

I generally find that the screw driver that fits is the one that looks like it’s just a bit too large for the bit. Along with these I’d recommend picking up one bit driver and a set of bits. This will cover you for all the innovation that’s occurred in the past years.

There are too many differentiations to enumerate them all here, but the basic system of ISO measurement is as follows: Because ISO thread standards are metric, they are demarcated as M followed by the nominal diameter, in millimeters. If the pitch of the thread is nonstandard, this diameter is followed by an “x” and the pitch. If a standard pitch is used, no pitch is mentioned.

(7) Fork-air bleeder. Even if you own a #20 Torx wrench, never use it on the air side of the WP forks. It will strip out. Just use a 10mm T-handle. On the left side, you have to use the #20 Torx.

This is how we set up our 2018 KTM 250SX for racing. We offer it as a guide to help you find your own sweet spot.

Now that all this history is out of the way, we can make a few determinations. If the Philips screw cams out when too much torque is applied, we need a Phillips screw driver with a precisely ground head and sharp geometry to bite into the metal. Another example determination we can make is that not all plus shaped screws are Philips screws. They do have pretty easy markings though, for example, most of the stripped out screws on an unfortunate piece of test equipment I tried to take apart had a little X intersecting the head pattern. This X indicated that the screws were in fact Posidriv screws, and no amount of cursing would make them properly compatible with a #2 Philips. Flat head screws are to be used for decoration. Hex headed machine screws are to be used with a ball headed driver when torque is low and flat headed driver when torque is high. I won’t go on and on, but I guess I’m making a case for doing research on the fastener. It tells you a lot.

Finally, some professional advertisers worked as in-house specialists for the biggest businesses, such as Lever Brothers.

With the help of some local bigwigs, he made this dream a reality. The goat was 13 metres tall, 7 metres long and weighed three tonnes. It stood proudly in the city’s town square for the whole of December.

However, considering the strict restrictions worldwide on tobacco advertising today, it may be appropriate to quote a popular line from the category’s own advertising of the swinging seventies: ‘You’ve come a long way, baby!’ This was a line used for Eve cigarettes, designed to lure women smokers.

Channels need to invest more in content and consider capping advertising to enhance the viewership experience. Production houses need to be run like proper businesses and grow in size because only then will they have any say in the decision making.

Regarding the term “flat-head” I’ll weigh in. My father who was an airplane mechanic taught me the term “straight-blade screwdriver” to refer to the driver used in slotted screw heads. This seems more correct because it is a blade-like, is straight, and that end of the screwdriver doesn’t really resemble a head. (Isn’t a head round, even if it’s flat on top?) In reference to the screw itself, slotted screws can be flat or round when you look at them from the side. Phillips, Robertson, hex, Torx and nearly every other variety can be flat or round, and there’s also “pan-head”, sort of an elliptical profile. And in nearly all other screw-and-driver contexts when we refer to the head, it’s in reference to the head of the screw, not the driver. But no worries. Words are not sacred cows and I’ve learned to cope. But I’ll still say “straight-blade” in reference to the driver or “slotted” in reference to the screw.