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Old 05-21-16, 04:01 AM
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Originally Posted by gna
They switched to half round notches some time in the late '70s. You can get a special spanner:

Designing in rounded edges that would want to cam any tool you are using outward is just plain stupid. It's like putting rounded edges on a nut. I'm filing this under dumb SA 70s ideas like eliminating the nut on pulley clips and plastic trigger covers that always cracked.
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