Talk:Bristol Wrench

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[edit] Product time line

The statement that Bristol spline fasteners were "in use no later than the beginning of the 1950's" is misleading, and probably downright wrong. The Bristol company is alive and well, as evidenced by their Web site. I've encountered Bristol spline screws on electronic laboratory equipment manufactured through the 1960s and 1970s, so I know this can't be true. -QuicksilverT @ 19:33, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

I'm sure that meant "by no later than the beginning...", meaning they came into use by the fifties, maybe earlier. NickelShoe (Talk) 02:23, 7 June 2006 (UTC)


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[edit] Current use of Bristol screws?

I have never seen a Bristol screw in the US, and only VERY rarely seen the bits offered. Is this mainly a UK fastener design, or is the Bristol design itself hardly used at all anymore, not unlike Frearson (Reed & Prince)? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.72.94.236 (talk) 14:09, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

They're US, not UK. I've never seen one on any equipment other than US-sourced.

The main reason they're unpopular is that they're difficult to insert the driver, making them almost unusable on a production line. Torx do everything that Bristol do, without this problem. Andy Dingley (talk) 22:36, 21 April 2008 (UTC)