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Posted: **Fri Dec 25, 2009 6:47 pm**

Would someone be able to tell me what Z1 model had the velcrow fastener on the tool kit pouch
Thanks
Steve

Posted: **Fri Dec 25, 2009 7:41 pm**

was velcrow invented then. :?:

Posted: **Fri Dec 25, 2009 8:08 pm**

The velcro are the early ones Steve.

Posted: **Fri Dec 25, 2009 9:45 pm**

Davy
Thanks for info.
Did it change to the press stud on the Z1A?
Regards
Steve

Posted: **Sat Dec 26, 2009 9:38 am**

here is a link to my earlier item on tool kits you may also find useful

http://www.z1ownersclub.co.uk/forum/vie ... =tool+kits

Posted: **Sat Dec 26, 2009 10:11 am**

Graham
Thanks for redirection to your article,is the 2 popper Z1B?
I have a Z1 tool kit complete except for the 10mm allen key anyone got a spare one ?can swap for other parts of kit
Steve

Posted: **Sat Dec 26, 2009 11:57 am**

hello Steve

the Z1B had the 2 popper fastner, with the allen key you can kind of cheat and get one out of a cheap market stall modern set, however if you look real close at the proper one there is a tiny old style logo embossed on its shaft, therefore only an anorak like me would know the differnce.

Posted: **Sat Dec 26, 2009 12:13 pm**

Graham
The set I have has a GKN allen key I was looking for the one with the Kawasaki logo'also the screwdriver handle in the tool kit has the gold logo :

Steve

Posted: **Sat Dec 26, 2009 2:05 pm**

bedlow1 wrote: there is a tiny old style logo embossed on its shaft, therefore only an anorak like me would know the differnce.

Honestly, some people :roll:

Posted: **Sat Dec 26, 2009 2:07 pm**

Can I vote this as one of the most boring threads ever....

Posted: **Sat Dec 26, 2009 2:34 pm**

its not that borzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzum a what

Posted: **Sat Dec 26, 2009 2:59 pm**

Can I vote this as one of the most boring threads ever....

Not just yet!

One lovely summer day in 1948, a Swiss amateur-mountaineer and inventor decided to take his dog for a nature hike. The man and his faithful companion both returned home covered with burrs, the plant seed-sacs that cling to animal fur in order to travel to fertile new planting grounds. The man neglected his matted dog, and with a burning curiosity ran to his microscope and inspected one of the many burrs stuck to his pants. He saw all the small hooks that enabled the seed-bearing burr to cling so viciously to the tiny loops in the fabric of his pants. George de Mestral raised his head from the microscope and smiled thinking, "I will design a unique, two-sided fastener, one side with stiff hooks like the burrs and the other side with soft loops like the fabric of my pants. I will call my invention 'velcro' a combination of the word velour and crochet. It will rival the zipper in its ability to fasten."

Mestral's idea met with resistance and even laughter, but the inventor 'stuck' by his invention. Together with a weaver from a textile plant in France, Mestal perfected his hook and loop fastener. By trial and error, he realized that nylon when sewn under infrared light, formed tough hooks for the burr side of the fastener. This finished the design, patented in 1955. The inventor formed Velcro Industries to manufacture his invention. Mestral was selling over sixty million yards of Velcro per year. Today it is a multi-million dollar industry.

http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa091297.htm

AL

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