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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (11 children)

You'd think that they would have switched to Pozidriv.

[–] mycelium_underground 13 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Why? Torx is better in every way. If you are going to change, why half ass it to Phillips 2.0

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] AnyOldName3 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] MutilationWave 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

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. Does pozidrive have any indication it's not Phillips? I've honestly never seen one. I might be working on brand new stuff or 60 year old stuff.

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] MutilationWave 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Good to know if I ever see one.

[–] AnyOldName3 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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:

[–] MutilationWave 2 points 4 days ago

Yep. I know it now. I just press hard and get em with my Phillips haha. I'll replace them with torx if I have the chance. Fucking stupid to make them look the same.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] mycelium_underground 1 points 4 days 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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