Comment on The torque better not be too strong with this one
AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 6 days agoPozidriv 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.
MutilationWave@lemmy.world 6 days 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.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 6 days ago
Yes, the head is visually distinctive from Phillips, with four smaller cuts in between the main ones.
MutilationWave@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Good to know if I ever see one.
AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I think it’s pretty likely that you’ve seen loads and never known they were different. The difference is small enough that you wouldn’t realise it was significant until you were told:
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