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Originally Posted by rob love

Regarding Robertson (square drive) screws in Canadian service or Canadian Automotive, I can think of very few examples of either. I have seen screws on some of the Bren chests that were a combination of Robertson and slot drive. Most of my run-ins with Robertson are with various crates or locally produced wooden items.

And this is the sort of rivet counting conversation that makes our hobby interesting? Now the question is not just how many screws but pitch, thread, length and head.

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FWIW, in Kandahar I was in a 4-eyes intelligence office lodged in a plywood hut. The commander was a US Navy three-ringer intelligence officer who had many interesting stories. I was asking about the building and we got talking about which of the US services gets things done in various circumstances. I commented that the electrical panel had been installed by Canadians. Huh? How on earth could I know that? See, Robertson heads on all the hardware.

(In his eyes every Canadian soldier had been something else before he met them, and scratch one and you'd find a former paratrooper in a Navy uniform doing imagery analysis, or university educated former clerks doing maps, or Cpls who were serious tech geeks.)