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With an angle grinder, every screw is a flathead screw.
raising questions about accessibility and aftermarket work
raising questions
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Curious to see how they plan to manufacture the fuckers.
I can draw fucky looking bolts too, without a plan to actually make them the design isn’t worth much. Those bolts will cost a small fortune to replace and will work a little worse than off the shelf parts. Not to mention making a tool to remove them can be done with pretty limited tools in an hour or so.
I imagine you could cold form them like most other bolts.
But yeah - as soon as this is in production Ali express has the drill bits to remove them on sale for 11 pence a go.
In germany, and none of this is a joke, I can’t legally use pedal reflectors on my bicycle that fullfill usual ISO or DIN (german ISO) norms if they don’t have the stamp of approval of the Federal Bureau of Cars. I’ll admit it’s basically unenforced, but it does pop up in fringe cases where “was it maybe your fault for being on a bicycle when somebody pulverized you doing 100 over the limit in their SUV” when that doesn’t immediatly go to be resolved as an act of god.
Further, parts for engine powered vehicles (excluding E-Bikes, without getting into the details) can be self-certified if a certificate is needed.
What I’m getting at is: While this isn’t hard to circumvent on a purely mechanical case, I’m pretty sure it’ll be a bitch to circument “legally”
seriously the annihilation of right-to-repair is the worst thing
The “Three Rs” were drilled into my head as a kid, it’s why the recycling logo has 3 arrows. Reduce is the first and most critical step. Well, we live under capitalism, the line must go up, reduction is off the table. Reuse was the second. Right to repair is absolutely critical to reuse. This is the step capitalism seeks to destroy now. Recycle is the final and least effective step, which is of course why it is the most marketed and used mostly for greenwashing, and does not require destruction as it has been co-opted.
It’s really awesome how capitalism just hates the planet and stands on the necks of our attempts to do anything about ecological destruction even when our attempts do not directly attack capitalism.
Spinning up an eBay shop to replace all those fasteners with normal ones in a kit, this is innovation
Even when they aren’t pulling shit like this, the fuckin’ Germans love to use one-time use bolts that torque to yield.
You know how the hex screw was made to get a good grip and not break the screw?
The second generation of this screw will be single use. If
you doa certified BMW mechatronic does any work involving the screw, it has to be replaced in the process, which will ofc be billed to thehostagecustomer.deleted by creator
heh, i’ll just do what I did with my fan, use a screw that’s slightly the wrong size but still kind fits and wedge it in there tight and hope it doesn’t come flying off in a catastrophic failure. checkmate, idiots
Anyone remember these things? Feel like it wouldn't be hard to adapt the design for stuff like this.
Tbf companies have made proprietary screws before. None of them this weird, but I don’t think it will take long for a market to appear for screwdrivers with this bit. Still awful don’t get me wrong, you shouldn’t have to buy a new screwdriver just because of this bullshit but it’s not someone that’s brand new.
