Freightliner fasteners

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  1. Boardhauler

    Boardhauler Road Train Member

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    Can someone please tell me if the torx type fasteners so beloved by Freightshaker are really Torx, Torx Plus, Star, Ribe, or XZN Triple Square? I'm not having a lot of luck with a Torx bit.
     
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  3. Pablo-UA

    Pablo-UA Road Train Member

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    Torx are beloved by all truck manufacters. Torx provide more torque, easyer to self centering, better for electric screw drivers and robots.

    Really Daimler used torx in end of 80-s. Early MB SK/LK and MK got torx mixed with phillips heads, but Century Class, Columbia, Actros and Atego cabins got torx bolts only.

    Look at modern Volvo (made after 2002), Paccar (BTW before 2000 DAF XF was made with philips screws, newer 2001 and later with Torx), MAN and International and many other trucks... TORX are everywhere
     
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  4. Boardhauler

    Boardhauler Road Train Member

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    Thank you Pablo.

    I'm meeting with my friend the Cornwell dealer tonight to order some professional sockets to deal with these bloody things. IMHO Torx offers no benefit whatsoever to the end user. The fastener/wrench combination least likely to slip out is a 6 point socket on a hex nut.

    I also don't recall seeing very many Torx heads on any Peterbilt I ever drove.
     
  5. eeb

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    Torx are a good theory... and that's all the engineer hears so he puts them everywhere.
     
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  6. Boardhauler

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    The engineer figures out that they lower the cost of the manufacturing process and is handsomely rewarded while the end user winds up paying many timesnwhat was originally saved when he has to work on it.
     
  7. Pablo-UA

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    no, torx is more expencive, but much better and requre smaller tools
     
  8. Boardhauler

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    It's more conducive to automated assembly, which lowers the cost of the finished product, even if the fastener itself is a few mils of a cent more expensive. It is a bad deal for the end user who is faced with the cost of the additional tools and dealing with all the stripped out heads.
     
  9. Pablo-UA

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    IMO. Torx is better for user. Less rouded heads. Just use good tools
     
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  10. Freightlinerbob

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    That's exactly right.
     
  11. eeb

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    What brand do you recommend? Snapon, Cornwell, and Mac aren't good enough, they still break, especially if the fastened has been exposed to any kind of weather or corrosion.
     
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