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lkchris · 03-03-2014, 08:20 PM

Hate to be pedantic, but "socket" implies female. These tools are drivers. There are internal and external TORX fasteners, but this isn't the case with triple square/XZN, mostly due to semantics. There are 12-point head fasteners on, for example, BMW motorcycles, but the wrenches aren't called, for example outside XZN, just as hex-head fasteners aren't called outside Allen. Nobody calls an Allen driver a "socket." The Pelican page makes the error, too.

03-03-2014, 08:20 PM	#7
lkchris Registered User Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Albuquerque, NM, USA Posts: 730	Hate to be pedantic, but "socket" implies female. These tools are drivers. There are internal and external TORX fasteners, but this isn't the case with triple square/XZN, mostly due to semantics. There are 12-point head fasteners on, for example, BMW motorcycles, but the wrenches aren't called, for example outside XZN, just as hex-head fasteners aren't called outside Allen. Nobody calls an Allen driver a "socket." The Pelican page makes the error, too. __________________ Kent Christensen Albuquerque 2001 Boxster 2007 GL320 CDI, 2010 CL550 2 BMW motorcycles Last edited by lkchris; 03-03-2014 at 08:26 PM.