Tamper Resistant fasteners

[Vinko]

Just curious:

What tamper resistant fasteners do you most commonly see, and which are the rarest in your line of work or off-duty wrenching?

Maybe nothing can be considered "tamper resistant" if you've got the socket or bit for it

 

[DHCrocks]

the only ones I've come across are the torx with the pin, those bow tie looking ones and the triangle ones. haha, they are so secure i don't even know their names....lol

 

[holden26]

the only ones I've come across are the torx with the pin, those bow tie looking ones and the triangle ones. haha, they are so secure i don't even know their names....lol

lol good trick for the torx with a pin in the middle is to just snap the pin and i usually can find a flat head screwdriver to fit the triangle ones

 

[DHCrocks]

torx is solved bought a set of drivers with the hole....
the triangle one, i usually just use a miniature needle nose plier... the end of the beak fits in the screw pretty good.

 

[rocco]

we run into AV safe fasteners on Prison fixtures.

 

[jdcompman]

we run into AV safe fasteners on Prison fixtures.

Rocco - I'm sitting here trying to figure out how those would work or how one would install them? Are they some type of fastener where part of it breaks off when you tighten it down?

 

[Major Ramifications]

They look like they would use an inverted taper to install/remove.

 

[mrshaun]

hi loks?? not sure what they look like.
blue point now has the tamper proof allen sockets
not sure what they go to yet.....
http://buy1.snapon.com/catalog/new.asp

 

[Toolhorder]

SRS/Airbag control units, I see them on video game machines, bathroom stall bolts for the brackets that hold the stalls together and the toilet paper holder, Acura Legend VSS. That's off the top of my head....

 

[TheGrooveking]

What I do is take the tamper resistant torx and fill the heads with solder after installing. That way people just can't use a driver to get it out, they at least need to be prepared to remove the solder, which a small propane torch does very quickly.

TheGrooveking

 

[Toolhorder]

What I do is take the tamper resistant torx and fill the heads with solder after installing. That way people just can't use a driver to get it out, they at least need to be prepared to remove the solder, which a small propane torch does very quickly.

TheGrooveking

Wow good idea!
I use them on my video game machines on my side business. I'm thinking that's just the thing to keep the vandals from taking about my machines to get the money.

 

[gbick]

I've wondered why the tamper-resistant fasteners are used on bathroom stalls. Do some people want to rearrange the qubicles?

 

[speed bump]

I've wondered why the tamper-resistant fasteners are used on bathroom stalls. Do some people want to rearrange the qubicles?

I've always wanted one of those big sheets of delrin.

I need to find the ASME article but there was a good one some time ago about tamper resistant fasteners and the amusing example was the money box is held with philips and the bathroom stalls were held together with the swirl type almost unremovable fasteners.

 

[bluesman2a]

If you have a welder, nothing is tamper resistant. I deal with a lot of the tamper resistant torx or torx that are rusted and/or stripped out. Weld a regular nut to the top and gank it out with an impact... Or nuke it from orbit... It's the only way to be sure.

 

[malibu101]

As usual, HF has a low price answer to the needs of tamperproof bits.
How tamper proof are they when anyone can drop $8 to own a set?

http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=93388

 

[TA^Guy]

As usual, HF has a low price answer to the needs of tamperproof bits.
How tamper proof are they when anyone can drop $8 to own a set?

http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=93388

I have two of those sets and I paid $3.99 each for them on sale. lol

 

[speed bump]

hi loks?? not sure what they look like.
blue point now has the tamper proof allen sockets
not sure what they go to yet.....
http://buy1.snapon.com/catalog/new.asp

We had a card scanner at work that used tamper proof allens. I really wanted to take it apart dump water in it and tell them it just stopped working.

I have two of those sets and I paid $3.99 each for them on sale. lol

Perfect for the high school aged vandal in your neighborhood bathroom

 

[TA^Guy]

We had a card scanner at work that used tamper proof allens. I really wanted to take it apart dump water in it and tell them it just stopped working.

Perfect for the high school aged vandal in your neighborhood bathroom

I think it's funny that in the same post you talk about pouring water into a privately owned machine you mention 'high school aged' vandals... lmao

BTW, those "security" screws aren't so much for someone not to vandalize it like you want to as it's generally to protect people from putting devices inline of the reader to capture card numbers and pins.

 

[Teken]

We use these for some applications: The one's on the lower right of the picture.

Regards

EVIL Teken . . .

 

[Toolhorder]

I'm going to HF to get a set of those and a crappy chicago electric cordless drill. Bathroom stalls beware. All those people will have to stare at each other's junk once I unscrew all the walls.

 

[Teken]

I'm going to HF to get a set of those and a crappy chicago electric cordless drill. Bathroom stalls beware. All those people will have to stare at each other's junk once I unscrew all the walls.

 

[Titus]

I'm going to HF to get a set of those and a crappy chicago electric cordless drill. Bathroom stalls beware. All those people will have to stare at each other's junk once I unscrew all the walls.

I have yet to truly LOL from anything in the joke thread in free parking, but that one made me LOL.

 

[rocco]

Rocco - I'm sitting here trying to figure out how those would work or how one would install them? Are they some type of fastener where part of it breaks off when you tighten it down?

they are slightly ovoid.

unlike most of the other fasteners, a prisoner can't melt a piece of plastic, let it harden in the fastener and then turn it out. these are just about the most "tamperproof" fastener available

 

[chris_morrison_]

hi loks?? not sure what they look like.
blue point now has the tamper proof allen sockets
not sure what they go to yet.....
http://buy1.snapon.com/catalog/new.asp

4.3l vortec distributers

 

[tjmonsen5]

I see these screws holding together all of the bathroom stalls at my school. How do you remove them? You need to drill them out?
Also, there are alot of tamper torx, i have a set of those at home! lol

 

[Vinko]

We use these for some applications: The one's on the lower right of the picture.

Regards

EVIL Teken . . .

What's the tool look like that takes that fastener out?

I wouldn't mind using that or an AV fastener in a prev. message in this thread to use to seal crates -- I wonder if they make it in a screw form?

Just one more step in protection -- unless you had the driver for the one pictured above, you'd have to cut the ****** out, I suppose.

 

[quattrojon]

Some models of Audi's use an M16 tamperproof spline socket on the gearboxes.