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Default UK DIYers clueless about tools

On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:23:17 +0100, Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "Man at B&Q"
saying something like:

A "slotted screwdriver" sounds like a rare beast.


I have one, in common with lots of other people.


I'll bet you don't.


I do - a screwdriver with a slot cut in it for doing up spokes, so that the
nipple can be screwed down past the end of the spoke.
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Peter.
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