In reply to beardy mike:
> Manufacturers anodise for a reason, but if that's lost on you then there's not much to say really.
Of course they do it for a reason and I don't think it's lost on me. I'm afraid it is probably to create a market for something superficially new and which is annoying to have mixed with the older versions, thus manipulating us into abandoning our old nuts in favour of buying new ones. And, to make things worse, they even changed the colour coding - hence my having to use bits of coloured insulating tape to make them compatible (I remember someone from WC once came on here with the excuse that anodising is only possible in some colours. Really?)
> That said, I'm not sure how you could get confused by coloured nuts - are they really that difficult to get your head around? I mean not ALL the anodising wears off. Personally I tend to look at a crack and know what colour will fit.....
Yes, I think in colours too (rather than numbers or just looking for one which looks the right side). Hence the problem.
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