Originally Posted by
Hiro11
Checking out.
What did you expect the BF brain trust to be able to do for you about this? We can't go back in time and change an existing product in the world to be something different. This is a discussion forum, all we can really do here is discuss ideas and hope useful information gets shared. In this case, you learned that the plastic tabs on older models did in fact break off sometimes and that's why they made this change. I guess other people learned the 1040 has metal tabs and is anybody else online is similarly concerned you may have brought this to their attention too.