On 2019-02-19 12:52 p.m., Ed Minch wrote:
> He opened it and took the spring out for me and all was well with the world.

Thus was a superior tool dumbed-down to accommodate an inferior 
fastener! ( IMO )

Don

-- 
A thermometer is not liberal or conservative. - Katharine Hayhoe

A good row does wonders for raising interest, and to be 'good' a row must have
something to be said on both sides,
  and a proper issue in the middle." - Rosemary Hill, 'Writing About the
Crafts', in The Culture of Craft, Peter Dormer, ed.

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