List- Posidrive drivers (unlike LBC drivers) can be found at just about any
GOOD hardware store, Stanley make them, so do other name brand
manufacturers. Look for a hardened tip (different color- pressed or swaged
in place), and NEVER use a posidrive driver for a Phillips screw!!!-It bungs
up the small points on the driver and makes it virtually worthless for
anything but Phillips heads. Spoken only from experience, not as a detriment
to those who haven't done it.
Mark Haynes
'62 HAN6 RMVR
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Maclean [SMTP:macleans@earthlink.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 1999 11:33 PM
> To: JustBrits@aol.com
> Cc: jaybird@isoc.net; spridgets@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: windshield and rubber - huh?
>
> Ed,
> " Posidriv " is the brand name of this type of fastener. It is
> similar to
> the Philips head screw. The Phillips head was designed so that the screw
> driver
> would "roll" out of the slots if too much pressure were put on it during
> installation. The Posidriv was designed with more parallel and square
> sides in
> its slots for the express purpose of being able to accept extreme pressure
> from
> the Posidrive screwdriver. Snap-on sells Posidriv driver bits like the
> ones for
> electric screwdrivers or you can put it in a socket made for driver bits.
> BTW<
> VB sells the majority of there replacement screws for the Bugeye in the
> form of
> Posidriv screws. I'm told some British cars used Posidriv fasteners
> throughout. Excuse the long winded explanation, during my former career
> as a
> Mechanical Designer,
> I got to know all kinds of fasteners intimately and even had a few gigs
> designing them.
> Mike MacLean-60 Sprite
>
> JustBrits@aol.com wrote:
>
> > In a message dated 4/6/99 4:58:25 PM Central Daylight Time,
> jaybird@isoc.net
> > writes:
> >
> > << posa-drives >>
> >
> > As I have only been around these vehicles for, er, a decade or two (<G>)
> I
> > would be VERY interested in this "fasterner" and what is used to implace
> > them!?!?!?
> >
> > Ed
>
>
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