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Originally posted by Mike Martus
Standardize your fasteners, this saves cost and confusion as well as tool purchase. Chief Delphi uses 10-24 cap or button head 90% of the time. There are always a few oddball 1/4 20, but very few.
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I HIGHLY agree with this statement. This year, we took the advice of Dr. Joe at the Delphi team forum and decided to standardize, and we even switched to Metric. I'm still not sure why we changed, but anyway standardization saves you in the long run. If you have one size bolts, with a handful of allen wrenches at that size, it really makes things easy. If you need to pull a part off, just grab any allen wrench lying around and boom you are already on your way to getting that fastener off. This saves time (I know this for a fact, we used to look for hours for the right size allen wrench..now its just grab any wrench around and it will fit...you save 10 minutes at a time...guaranteed). Thanks Dr. Joe and Chief Delphi for pointing this out, its really saved a lot of time and headaches.
