Used Bryston opportunity

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Re: Used Bryston opportunity
« Reply #20 on: 12 Aug 2016, 03:00 am »
Ahh, so they're actually called wood screws? Now I finally understand why there's always a square tip on the wood saw of many multi tools...
The Robertson name refers to the screw head, it's used on any type of screw. A great Canadian invention.

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Re: Used Bryston opportunity
« Reply #21 on: 14 Aug 2016, 03:56 am »
Hope the unit is not like this:

http://www.pacair.com/mmamps3/hall-rust

lol...

Will try to see some rear photos, from what I gathered the store is located just by seaside... Might go for it regardless

Johnny2Bad

Re: Used Bryston opportunity
« Reply #22 on: 14 Aug 2016, 01:21 pm »
In the USA you will find the Robertson screw hardware and associated drivers referred to as Scrulox.

There are a few sizes, but probably about 80% of the Robertson / Scrulox heads are the #2 size. Robertson drivers are colour coded, the #2 driver will be red coloured.

The next most common is the #3, which if a Robertson driver is used, will be coloured Black.

A set of Nos 1 through 3 is fairly common (Green, Red, Black) and is the recommended set to own; a set of 6 covers all possible sizes, but to be honest the 00, 0, and 4 are extremely rare. Personally, I cannot even recall ever using them.

Trivia:
Robertson patented his screw head in 1908 (Canada) and 1909 (USA, elsewhere) and licensed it to a UK firm, who then proceeded to defraud him by a legal manoeuvre involving a contrived bankruptcy to negate the need for a license.

As such, he refused to license the head to anyone else and that gave the Phillips licensees the traction they needed to become the more widespread type in the USA.

Henry Ford found the system to speed up production and reduce cost, but his attempts to license could not overcome Robertson's stubborn refusal, so that the result was they were used on all Ford vehicles manufactured in Canada but not on any made in the USA.

Almost every screw sold in Canada is a Robertson type, with a hybrid (Robertson, Phillips) also quite common for items manufactured for both domestic and export sales.

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Re: Used Bryston opportunity
« Reply #23 on: 14 Aug 2016, 05:25 pm »
^ Canadians always get shafted with patent stuff.    :o

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Re: Used Bryston opportunity
« Reply #24 on: 15 Aug 2016, 02:44 am »
In the USA you will find the Robertson screw hardware and associated drivers referred to as Scrulox.

There are a few sizes, but probably about 80% of the Robertson / Scrulox heads are the #2 size. Robertson drivers are colour coded, the #2 driver will be red coloured.

The next most common is the #3, which if a Robertson driver is used, will be coloured Black.

A set of Nos 1 through 3 is fairly common (Green, Red, Black) and is the recommended set to own; a set of 6 covers all possible sizes, but to be honest the 00, 0, and 4 are extremely rare. Personally, I cannot even recall ever using them.

Trivia:
Robertson patented his screw head in 1908 (Canada) and 1909 (USA, elsewhere) and licensed it to a UK firm, who then proceeded to defraud him by a legal manoeuvre involving a contrived bankruptcy to negate the need for a license.

As such, he refused to license the head to anyone else and that gave the Phillips licensees the traction they needed to become the more widespread type in the USA.

Henry Ford found the system to speed up production and reduce cost, but his attempts to license could not overcome Robertson's stubborn refusal, so that the result was they were used on all Ford vehicles manufactured in Canada but not on any made in the USA.

Almost every screw sold in Canada is a Robertson type, with a hybrid (Robertson, Phillips) also quite common for items manufactured for both domestic and export sales.

there's money to be made selling these tools and screws overseas, I tell you that :)