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[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 6 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Not pictured here is also 'JIS' or Japanese Industry Standard screws.

Yeah I thought it was funny they got the JIS head shape but not the drive.

They are very similar to Philips, but they're slightly deeper with sharper corners. They have less tendency to 'cam-out' and strip the screw head.

Until you try to drive one with a Philips because who the fuck outside of Japan has a JIS driver lying around, then they strip real easy. Ask me how I know.

Why, why, are there so many different cross-shaped screw drives?

[–] Bluewing@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

Because there was a lot of money to be made if you could create a new standard type of screw back in the day.

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

who the fuck outside of Japan has a JIS driver lying around, then they strip real easy. Ask me how I know.

Funnily enough, I only know about these because I've got one of I Fix-It's screwdriver sets with 70 driver bits.

I was wondering why there were two sets of what looked like Philips and went looking for info.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Funnily enough, I only know about these because I’ve got one of I Fix-It’s screwdriver sets with 70 driver bits.

I got one of these too, and holy shit is it worth it. Great purchase. I love not having to wonder if I'm going to have the right screwdriver head (generally. Obviously, this thread has taught me that there's like infinite more types)

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 3 points 2 days ago

If I could just wave a magic wand and make it happen I would change all screw-type fasteners into Torx and just be done with these problems forever.