I kinda miss a few opinions on the topic of “screw taste” here. 🥲
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Reject screw. Return to nail.
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you take that back about the square drive and pin that shit on the phillips head
context: the square drive was designed as a universal open standard for affixing things to other things. the phillips head was designed as a cheap alternative to torque wrenches
Designed as? No, it was a happy accident. The original patent mentioned nothing about it, and then when they realized they could make that claim the patent was updated.
Fuck phillip head everything.
Square bit as the go-to general purpose bit is the correct opinion. Every time I have to pull my square bit off to put a Philips on I am just disappointed.
Phillips strips because it was designed to. Literally. And I fucking hate it.
Slotted is a bitch unless you have the motor skills of a neurosurgeon.
All tamper screws are offensive to me on a religious/spiritual level.
Nah, I love me some Torx (especially T15 or T20), and maybe Pozi, if you need a cross-slit screw head, but plain PH? Miss me with that.
spanner is pretty tasty usually for me but phillips and slotted depends on where it was. id argue thats propaganda since its seen everywhere. specialized screws i think are usually upkept well enough to be tasty.
I prefer torx to Philips. Philips strips too easily
I like Philips with slot because it's useful for when it strips and it will strip.
It's not square, it's ROBERTSON!!! A gift from Canadians to the world, and everyone else decides that, no. Easily strippable screw heads are better...
No mention of Oval drive? As much as I normally hate security fasteners, I love those for being hilarious. At first glance it appears roughly circular, you'd be like "well this is a nail, or a rivet or something". But no, actually you can unscrew it!
I have never seen this. I love it! It’s so simple! Why are these not everywhere?!
Right?! And yet AFAIK there is exactly one (now defunct) company who ever used them. I guess it's time to be the change we want to see in the world 😈
Phillips exists to auto center and prevent over tightening. This auto centers but doesn’t prevent overtighteninf so you can theoretically torque the head right off. Otherwise it’s great.
and prevent over tightening
That’s a funny way of saying “it’s designed to strip out and become unusable as easily as possible”, but to each their own.
Oh it absolutly does that, which is why I hate it, but it was intended to so exactly that for a different reason.
Robertson and hex are fine. In the far reaches of the world those can be quite common.
Half of those screws are Robertson if you're in a pinch.
Phillips and slotted should be illegal. Torx is far superior in every way.
Kinda surprised this wasn't a gender comic. I half expected the corpo propaganda label to be mental illness lol
And torx is the tastiest screw, fight me
I love torx, but posidrive, triangle, and even spanner all hold a special place.
I won't fight you brother, I will join you, torx is the best screw, doesn't strip, Philips is literally built to slip under pressure
Those tasty screws are the least useful and easiest to strip. I like robertson (square) but it's still easy to strip if you use the wrong size bit. It is a little silly that there are dozens of types, but that's what you get with patent laws in a money driven evonomy, a hundred ways to do the same thing.
easiest to strip -> easiest to nibble on
Pozi and Torx are my jam. They all taste the same though. Yup, I keep 3 or 4 on the side of the mouth when I'm working on a ladder. Nothing beats nails if you want taste.
Nah, fuck Phillips, every time I use it, even with the perfect sized bit, it strips, and I put just enough torque to fully screw it in and make sure it’s a little tight, and I put enough pressure so it doesn’t twist itself off, but holy hell it is the only screw type I’ve tried which has stripped. I honestly wish hex or square were used for tech instead of Phillips, would’ve been so damn easy to clean the dust out of my laptops if so.
Ehh the s type screw is pretty nostalgic for me. It takes me back to the days in school drawing that cool S all over my notebook and then eating the page.
Taste is much more about the grade, this is more of a texture situation. Personally the S type looks fun to lick.
you probably shouldn't eat skrews
Pica pica pica-chew
Wow this troll post worked excellently
I'm pretty sure most comments ignored the fact that the first two screws are classified as “tasty screws” rather than “good screws,” as I only saw a handful of comments mentioning the taste of the screws.
Hex is amazing, actually. Perfect for mechanical systems that need precision adjustments and/or precision tightening torque. The driver grips solid and is really hard to accidentally strip.
Slotted / flat head is a joke and I can't take you seriously if you claim it deserves a top spot in any ranking.
Phillips is great for layman end user applications that need protection from over-torque, as it's designed to reject a driver when torqued out. But it's the wrong head to use in like 90% of the places you encounter it.
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Fyi Robertson(square) and slotted are the "tasty" screws.
Philips is a corporate design built to strip.
Square and Robertson are 2 different types. The Robertson screws have a slight taper to the socket you can see if you look. Square drive screws are NOT tapered.
There are also 2 different types of common cross slotted screws. One is Philips that is actually meant to be a 'one and done' install. It was meant to cam out to prevent over torquing when assembling something back in the day. Don't blame the screwhead for your poor choice in application or you cheaping out on the driver to install them because you bought some crappy dollar store driver.
And then there the VERY similar looking JIS, (Japanese Industrial Standard) screws that require their own special driver. If you get Philips and JIS screws mixed up, you WILL have a very bad day....
My favorite flavor is the hex socket head screws. A nearly complete set of wrenches will fit in you pocket. Either fold up or ball end L style.
I don't like philips. They wear out fast and leave behind a rounded cavity that makes the screw useless.
The only screws Phillips makes are when screwing their customers over.
Slotted is absolute garbage, shit, cockpiss, analfart, stinky rotten penis breath.
tag yourself i'm tasty screw
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