Comment on The torque better not be too strong with this one

• wander1236@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Backwards compatibility

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  • AnyOldName3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Pozidriv is intentionally not backwards compatible, and one of the biggest problems it has is looking enough like Phillips that people assume it must be compatible, use a mismatched screw and driver, and strip a head.

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    • MutilationWave@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Which is why it sucks. I go to work and I see a cross cut, I’m going to use my Phillips head of appropriate size to pull it out or put it in. Did 8 pozidrive have any indication it’s not Phillips? I’ve honestly never seen one.

      I don’t have any pozidrive bits but I have two sets of long torx, some double sided torx for my hand driver, and a bunch of little torx bits in my bag to hand out to the kid that came to his first day of work with nothing but a #2 Phillips.

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      • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Yes, the head is visually distinctive from Phillips, with four smaller cuts in between the main ones.

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• dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  You’re right - Torx is definitely a better option. I just mentioned Pozidriv because people seem to love Phillips head so much for whatever reason, so Pozidriv seems like a logical increment from there.

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  • mycelium_underground@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    (@Dan not shitting on you, i just really hate Phillips)

    Next logical increment… Gotta say ain’t nothing logical about Phillips/posidrive bullshit,

    Robertson drive was around when Henry Ford decided to use Phillips on his cars. Robertson was more expensive to licence the patents(Phillips was cheap cause people thought it was shit)

    God damned Nazis fucking everything up(Ford was a Nazi(ish) and a real piece of shit). Maximizing profits over everything else screws everything up as we are seeing right now, but sometimes it doesn’t just fuck up the here and now, but like Phillips, it just keeps fucking everything up for more than 100 years.

    “Let’s make a drive that has an angle to it so that it will strip out super easily and destroy the fastener(don’t tell me Phillips is great because it limits torque, it doesn’t without destroying the head so bad you might not be able to remove it)” said no good engineer ever.

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