Emergency parts/tools recommendations

"Werehatrack" wrote in message

In most of the US, $20 won't get you home via anything but public
transportation, and your chances of being within range of that are
slim. On the other hand, a buck will get you four quarters that can
be used to make two phone calls if you don't have a cell phone...and
if the one-dollar bill gets damaged while in use as a boot, it's not
much of a loss. (Yes, the damaged bill can be swapped for a good one
at a Federal Reserve Bank (and many others), but the chances are good
that if a note's going to help you get out of a sticky mess in the US,
then $1 is probably as good as $10 or more.)


That's extremely well thought out!

It's still a quarter up here in Canuck land to make a phone call. I keep one
or two of those plus a long distance card. If the fit hits the shan, I phone
home or a friend and get a lift. A $1 bill as a tire boot though is an
EXCELLENT idea. You can exchange a US $1 bill for 4-quarters up here too
(people know greenbacks value ... I may just start carrying one of those
now.

Great idea!

On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 09:42:25 -0400, "C.J.Patten"
wrote:

what on a bike uses a Torx
driver?

Chainring bolts on FSA crankset. I think it's a #30 Torx.

"Paul Kopit" wrote in message
...
On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 09:42:25 -0400, "C.J.Patten"
wrote:

what on a bike uses a Torx
driver?

Chainring bolts on FSA crankset. I think it's a #30 Torx.

My FSA Alpha drive takes a large hex-driver... maybe other FSA's tho...?

Per Paul Kopit:
what on a bike uses a Torx
driver?

Chainring bolts on FSA crankset. I think it's a #30 Torx.

Can somebody attempt to explain the thought process of one who would make such a
decision?

"Let's see here.... This chain ring uses a 5mm allen key, that chain ring uses a
5 mm Allen key, all those other chain rings use a 5 mm Allen key, the saddle
binder uses a 5 mm Allen key, the saddle adjuster uses a 5mm Allen key, the
stem uses a 5mm Allen key.... Wow! I've got it!! *WE* will use a 30 mm Torx."

As an aside, I jut bought a new windsurfer and, instead of the common slotted
head on the vent screw (operable with a car key, any one of a number of coins,
and borken piect of clamshell... whatever) some genious spec'd a Phillips head.

Maybe these two guys suffer from some sydrome - maybe even the same one that
afflicts those engineers who decide where to locate a car's oil filter...-)

Anybody remember the comic strip called "Hatlo's Inferno"? Is there a niche
developing for a successor?
--
PeteCresswell