Comment on acceptable screws

Leviathan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• bane_killgrind@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  6 "lobe" is torx too. Nobody calls Allen bolts hexagon either.

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  • finalarbiter@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don’t think I’ve ever heard that fastener called an Allen bolt, just the tool (Allen key). I’ve generally heard them called hex sockets heads. Maybe it’s a regional thing?

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    • LolcatXTREME@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Allen is a brand name, they’re hex keys/wrenches

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      • bane_killgrind@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah you are right

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    • fayoh@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Fun fact speaking of regional things, in Swedish they are called “insex” (as in six on the inside)

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      • EddoWagt@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        In Dutch they are called “inbus”, which apparently comes from the German name “Innensechskantschraube Bauer und Schaurte”, where Innensechskantschraube means inside six sided screw and Bauer und Schaurte is the company who patented the screw type.

        I have no idea how the name inbus came to be

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    • bane_killgrind@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Maybe, I do hear hex a bunch

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  • Leviathan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Just rude, really.

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  • BreadOven@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Agreed, but I often hear Allen keys referred to as hex keys. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone confused by that though.

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  • Rinox@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nobody calls Allen bolts hexagon either.

    That’s not true when working internationally, since it can have different names in different nations. In Italy is Brugola, in Germany Inbus and in other places it has other names. Everyone understands what a hex key is though

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• Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s a crime against safe screwing to dis Robertson like that.

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