Shock Horror

The name "occasional table" always makes me smile and wonder what it becomes when it isn't being a table ;-)

Chris

I would have said that both are fairly widely used. All bit sets come with a selection of both. When I have a fairly large screw to drive, I usually try both types of driver and use the one which fits most solidly, which is not always the 'correct' type. Note that the Japanese 'Phillips' profile is nearly the same as the European one, but not quite.

Jeff, old chap: you've been around here quite a while: can you explain why you haven't got at least two of every kind of screwdriver ever invented?

AJ

Ah, the wonderful Les Barker. At risk of thread drift, but I particularly like:

Each night she's on the balcony He loves her from afar His soft, sad eyes are hypnotised She shines down like a star. His heart will break forever His kind can't have affairs For Dachshunds with erections... Can't climb stairs. His home's a humble bungalow And her's a penthouse flat He cannot go where she can go And that, they say. is that. He never can be near her Although she knows he cares For Dachshunds with erections... Can't climb stairs.

You want to win a woman? Just be cool... be aloof The dog who doesn't hit the stairs Can make it to the roof. The dog who doesn't care Will be the dog who wins the day You'll never get to heaven... With your chopper in the way.

The spirit soars, the body falls And heavy lies the heart That cries out with the pain of love Be still my broken part. How painful is the passion And painful the repairs For Dachshunds with erections Can't climb stairs.

Not really. I used to have a set of Phillips but then pozi came in and now they all appear to be pozi.

If he's anything like me, he's has one set upstairs, another downstairs and a third down in the shed. That's sets. There is a random collection of one-off screwdrivers of various types lying around here & there (often where I last used them).

"Dachshunds with erections can't climb stairs" sounds like one of those implausible phrases that spies exchange to confirm that each is who he says he is:

Spy 1: Dachshunds with erections Spy 2: Can't climb stairs Spy 1: Ah, so we have satisfied each other that we are genuine. Now... how many missiles does the USSR have?

They could be JIS.

More likely to be JIS (Japanese Industrial Standards).

I don't thin think the Japanese made this table!

Absolutely. Anything less is reckless.

My wife recently bought a flatpack potting table from Lidl. The screws are JIS. I was so please to tell her to wait while I fetched the *proper* screwdrivers from my workshop.

Perhaps they are ponZi then ? :-)

:-)