Comment on acceptable screws
EddoWagt@feddit.nl 1 year agoIn 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
Olmai@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Innensechskantschraube Bauer und Schaurte probably
EddoWagt@feddit.nl 1 year ago
Well yeah but still, who would think of that?
bane_killgrind@kbin.social 1 year ago
Germans apparently
EddoWagt@feddit.nl 1 year ago
But the german name is just innensechskant