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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I strongly dislike how many times I've stripped a Phillips and used a die grinder to force it to become a flat. Torx is fine.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I used to restore "barn bikes", most of them were Japanese. It took me a while to figure out the difference between Japanese Industrial Standard (JIS) and Phillips screws. Of course over the years, a lot of the fasteners had already been cammed out by previous owners using a Phillips screwdriver in a JIS screw. I had to resort to the die grinder method far more than I'd have preferred.