Miata Mailing List: September 1999, Message #2911

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Fletch, JIS I think, stands for Japanese Industry Standard. They don't use
BHP or Kilowatts either, there is a JIS power measurement which
co-incidentally equals one of the two but I can't remember which, it's been
a long day!

Jeff Gehrig
MX5 Club NSW #169
'99 Grace Green
Oz TeamVoodoo
http://www.mx5.com.au/nsw
Aussie is pronounced Auzzie


----- Original Message -----
From: Fletcher Blades <fletch@powerlink.co.nz>
To: Multiple recipients of list <miata@list.miata.net>
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 1999 4:51 PM
Subject: Re: Torx, Philips, etc.


>
>If the earlier Miatas have "Phillips" fasteners holding the
>top latch on the header, you can bet they are probably #3
>JIS crosspoint and not #3 Phillips.
>
>Tom Blough

Down here in metric NZ, I've never heard of "JIS crosspoint".

Is this what we call "pozi-drive" ?

Pozi-drive has squarer edges than philips, and the fasteners themselves have
a little extra cross etched at a 45 degrees from the actual drive grooves
into the face of the fastener, so you can easily identify them...

Also my Oct-89, and all other MX-5's I've seen have torx for the header
clips. I'm guessing Denis' have been replaced...

Fletch.