"Cliff" wrote: (clip) Will this morph into another bible "wisdom" thread? (clip) "Curly Surmudgeon" wrote" (clip) A hexagon is a natural shape (clip) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Then how come haloes aren't hexagonal?
No, but I think I got this week's Puzzler nailed....
Leave the radiator cap loose. And stuff a large sized Tootsie Roll through the slit in the heater hose. IIRC those candies were about 3/4" dia x 6" long.
"John Martin" wrote: If the heads were Octagonal, they'd be called Octangonal bolts. Similarly square heads are called Square head bolts. It follows that hex head bolts have hexagonal heads.
Possibly, but a *very* close inspection of the NY/NJ Pallisades does not show any hexagons. Maybe the crystallographic form is hexagonal, but it does not show up in the cliffs anywhere.
Probably because it was the first shape that could be used with existing tools and tooling. Of course now there are so many different head designs and sizes used it can be a bother to buy tools to fit. Between US inch, Metric, Chinese metric, Whitworth, and British Standard that should be enough. BUT nope we have every type of external and internal drive thought up as well. Example is the 94 GM Blazer I'm working on. It has both US inch and Metric sizes, Hex, Internal Hex, Torx and external torx, Philips, Straight slot, Push nuts, and a few others.
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