[TenTec] Re:Orion case design

[Cara and Randy Randall]

The Phillips head screw was one of the worst inventions 

ever if the screw is stuck or the user does not know how to size the 
screwdriver 

or uses a cheap screwdriver.  The mobile home and I think the RV 
industry here 

in the states uses lots of the Robertson type screws.  I like the 
Robertson's 

better than the Allen screws.  I own a set of Robertson's.  Had 
to 

repair an item at work that had them.  The Torx type 
are pretty good too.    

 

73

Randy KB8ASO 


----- Original Message ----- 

From: Dave 
McClafferty  

To: TenTec@contesting.com ;Randy 
Randall 

Sent: 3/11/02 16:44:24 

Subject: Re: [TenTec] (no subject)





I have worked on radios of just about every make. The worst screws are 
on

Icom radios. There is usually at least one Phillips head stripped on 
any

radio that's been apart. Some day the rest of the world is going catch on 
to

a great Canadian invention,  the Robertson (square) screw 
head.

 

Dave, VE1ADH

 

 

----- Original Message -----

From: "Randy Randall"  randallr@Healthall.com  

To:  TenTec@contesting.com  

Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 4:44 PM

Subject: [TenTec] (no subject)

 

 

  I know how to put self taping or self threading screws back 
in.  I own and

use a torque scrwedriver.  ( A job in my former life required me 
to use one

to prevent snaping off nylon screws. ) The trick of turning the screw 
in

reverse until the thread drops back into the original grove is not 
unknown

to me either.  The small inexpensive MFJ (MFJ?!) 9420 uses PIM 
nuts on its

case.  If MFJ can do it ( and they are known for cutting just 
about every

corner known to modern quality control. ), why not TenTec?  If 
Icom,

Kenwood, Yeasu, my el'cheapo $59.00 no name throw a way VCR use 
machine

screws to hold the cabinet on among other things, so should 
TenTec.  If

machine screws were not needed, you can bet they would not be used by

Yaecomwood and others.

 

  Randy KB8ASO

 

  p.s.  Get rid of the gold trim.  Makes the thing 
look like a $9.95 rent to

own stereo.

 

      What a disappointment to see TenTec using the same 
el'cheapo fasteners

  that they used on the Jupiter.

 

   I have an old Omni C, a five year old Omni VI Plus  and an 18 
month old

   Pegasus.  I have in the past had a Triton IV Digital 
 for five years and

the

   great Argo 556 for about four years.  On all these 
 radios I never

striped

   one of the fasteners.

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