Fuuuuckin hell, I haven’t seen a slotted screw since the 1980s. Philips screws are exclusively for electrical.
Is this yet another way the US has dropped 30 years behind modern countries?
They make bad screw heads but the drivers themselves are useful for so many random odd-jobs that you can basically be guaranteed to find a flathead that’ll fit your screw within a few seconds of searching near basically any tools
Because of that many cheaper companies use flats for their screws, though I almost never see it in anything bigger than the little ass plugs we use in doorknobs and electrical socket covers. Once you go bigger than those it’s usually a Phillips/flat combo, or torx if you’re spending some extra cash
Oh god yeah I still use flat screwdrivers on a daily basis, basically as levers
“Little ass plugs” are called “grub screws” btw 😂
In 30 years you’ll catch up and they’ll all be 2.5mm Allen screws. I do remember them being slotted, it was a massive pain to find a screwdriver that fitted!
six lobe and it’s variants are instruments of the devil, I swear I can’t ever get the screw size right for the life of me and get so paranoid about stripping screws.
what’s wrong with philips + slot
Hex is fucking stupid.
Holy hell the entirety of Lemmy just exposed themselves as retarded jobless people.
Six lobe, or torx, is fucking awesome when screwing in serious screws. It’s the reason why it replaced all philips and most hex heads.
Slotted screws are the fucking worst. You guys have never worked a blue collar job in your lives 🤣😂😭
My first thought was, “this post brought to you by not mechanics.” Otherwise they’d recognize the superiority of hex and torx over Philips and especially flat. But then I realized this is, in fact, a very shit post.
