On 12/05/2007, at 10:45 AM, Ronn! Blankenship wrote: > Not that kind. Get your mind out of the gutter. > > > There are screws which have a hexagonal-shaped depression in the head > which require a tool which is variously called an "Allen wrench" or a > "hex key" to turn them. Then there are some which have a hexagonal > depression in the head but instead of being flat the bottom of the > depression has a raised bump in the center, which means that a > regular Allen wrench or hex key will not go far enough down into the > depression to turn them. (Which I think is the point.) Any of you > engineering types or handypersons know what the latter are properly > called?
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