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   XPost: alt.privacy   
   From: trevjon@btinternet.com   
      
   "Poldie"  wrote in message   
   news:1140638069.171131.36590@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...   
   > Trevjon wrote:   
   >> As a guy that mends these things for a living, there are two main reasons   
   >> why  items such as Torx screws are used, the first being  to stop the   
   >> "casual" handy man having a go at it and completely screwing it up.  I   
   >> suppose you could use the argument that if he owns the item, then he has   
   >> as   
   >> much right as anyone to completely bollox it up, but one has to look at   
   >> the   
   >> possibility that the item is owned by a company, and they wouldn't look   
   >> kindly upon any passing guy with a screw driver having a go at what could   
   >> potentially be a very expensive circuit board.   
   >   
   > As addressed above, this argument only holds water if you believe, as   
   > Monbiot evidently does, that Torx screwdrivers are somehow hard or   
   > impossible to obtain. They are not.   
      
   Very true. They are not hard or impossible to find, however, they are not a   
   common component in Mr Joe Average's toolbox.   
      
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