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Re: Worst design decisions?
From: Chris Adams <cmadams () hiwaay net>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 20:11:11 -0500
Once upon a time, Ben Browning <benb () theriver com> said:
The little clippy widgets (looks kind of like @) on some oldschool racks, that hold the nut in place for the hex-head bolt. Why these were considered desirable is beyond me.
We've got a bunch of racks like that (and my PDP8 rack at home has them as well). The nice thing about them is if you get a screw cross threaded and chew up the threads, you can pop the clip off and put a new one on. With rack rails that are pre-threaded, you've just lost the use of a hole (or you can try to re-tap the hole, maybe ending up having to use a non-standard screw for just that hole). -- Chris Adams <cmadams () hiwaay net> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
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- Re: Worst design decisions?, (continued)
- Re: Worst design decisions? Vinny Abello (Sep 18)
- Re: Worst design decisions? Ben Browning (Sep 18)
- Re: Worst design decisions? Matthew S. Hallacy (Sep 18)
- Re: Worst design decisions? Scott Granados (Sep 18)
- Re: Worst design decisions? bmanning (Sep 18)
- Re: Worst design decisions? Paul Timmins (Sep 18)
- Re: Worst design decisions? JC Dill (Sep 18)
- Re: Worst design decisions? Valdis . Kletnieks (Sep 18)
- Re: Worst design decisions? Scott Granados (Sep 19)
- Re: Worst design decisions? Valdis . Kletnieks (Sep 19)
- Re: Worst design decisions? Vinny Abello (Sep 18)
- Re: Worst design decisions? Chris Adams (Sep 18)
- Re: Worst design decisions? Christopher L. Morrow (Sep 19)
- Re: Worst design decisions? Leo Bicknell (Sep 19)
- Re: Worst design decisions? David Lesher (Sep 18)
- Re: Worst design decisions? Todd Vierling (Sep 18)
- RE: Worst design decisions? Mark Borchers (Sep 19)
- RE: Worst design decisions? Chris Horry (Sep 19)
- RE: Worst design decisions? Alex Rubenstein (Sep 19)