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MBech@feddit.dk 2 days agoIt’s an interresting difference. Where I am, you can’t get construction screws with phillips. I don’t know when we switched, but I started as a carpenter apprentice about 10 years ago, and back then everything was torx.
sxan@midwest.social 2 days ago
Damn. Where do you live? In general. I’m in the Minnesota, and it’s almost easier to find Robertson screws, because Canada.
MBech@feddit.dk 1 day ago
Scandinavia, don’t know about the rest of Europe, but up here philips is pretty much exclusively for cheap furniture.
sxan@midwest.social 1 day ago
Oh, yeah. Phillips is dominant in the US; patents and marketing. Except on the Canadian border, where Robertson bleeds over a bit. But Torx is slowly making gains; franchises like Ace carry them. There’s just not as much variety as Phillips yet. Even looking online, the only way you can get some types is by going to contractor sites where the options are buying 1,000 or more of the thing; I need, like, 2 screws to fix my door hinge. Places like Amazon US doesn’t carry Torx door hinge screws.
I was taking to a guy at Ace a couple of years ago, and he was saying that Ace was slowly switching to Torx inventory - more baskets were being dedicated to Torx screws every year. The conversion is just very slow.
whoisearth@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Robertson is always the correct answer.
sxan@midwest.social 1 day ago
It’s better than Phillips, for sure. I prefer Torx, myself, but as long as it isn’t Phillips, I’m in.