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Fun fact: Torx screwdrivers are compatible with Torx Plus screws, but Trox Plus screwdrivers are only compatible with Torx screws that are one size larger

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[–] [email protected] 91 points 3 months ago (10 children)

I repair a lot of tech and I have never seen torx other than the standard, and security version. And security torx drivers are compatible with regular torx

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago

There's other types on cars

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[–] [email protected] 75 points 3 months ago (11 children)

Torx are superior to all other types. I've been a carpenter for roughly three decades, and have suffered through all manner of fastening methods that have come and gone. None of them can hold a candle to Torx. I've never seen another type that can resist stripping out so well and for so long.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How do you feel about square drive? I'm no carpenter, just someone that's done enough work around the house, but I've found that Torx are the best option but square is a close second (but I don't think I've used them in any especially high torque situations, and they may fall short there).

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Square drive (or Robertson) I consider a close second. They do tend to strip out faster, especially in "softer" fasteners like stainless steel.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago

Torx should be the default over Phillips for sure. Phillips is fine for shit like access panels or screw terminals. Slotted is useless for anything but the adjustment on pots and thermostats. Robertson is just a proto-torx. Everything else either exists to make someone money or is a bolt

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Fellow contractor here. Torx or go home. Drywall screws are the only exception I'm willing to make.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 months ago (1 children)

We can debate this all day long but we all know torque is cheap.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago (1 children)

the worst is not when the screwdriver is fucked but the screw is. That is some huge pain in the ass

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (14 children)

Torx doesn't get fucked though, compared to alan or philips

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago (4 children)

my brother in christ have you seen phillips head and posi drive?

Life sucks. You can't win.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Useful tip: with security torx screws, with the little nub in the centre, if you get a small flathead screwdriver to jam in there and wiggle a bit, that centre bit will snap off without much difficulty.
You should be able to use a regular Torx screwdriver bit after that.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is really gonna come in handy during some of my heists

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I have to admit that each time I saw a torx security screw on a case I had to open (looking at you, Compaq) this made me so angry that I used to punch the middle pin away with a flathead screwdriver, and replace the screw with a regular one later. This was in those past times I did not have a fuckton of assorted torx bits in a gigantic case...

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago

One of these is a settings icon

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Lmao you've clearly never met Philips.

And if you're advocating slotted screws (flathead) you've already lost.

Torx is supreme. The end.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Robinson aka the square head is by far the superior choice.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

LOL sure, good one... Only time that square abomination is the answer is if the question is "what do you get if you put a toddler in charge of designing a poor knockoff unbrako head?"

TEAM TORX REPRESENT!

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 months ago

Things are getting heated in the screw fandom

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I'm not canadian, so I don't have a lot of experience with robertson. But from the limited experience that I do have, I would rate it 10/10.

What would you recommend for smaller screws (e.g. for electronics)? As far as I know, there aren't smaller sizes of robertson like there are with torx?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (12 children)

Pozidrive has real nice engagement and doesn't cam out like Phillips does. And JIS drivers do a better job in Phillips than Phillips ones do.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

After wrecking some JIS screws on a vintage reciever, I bought a nice Vessel-brand JIS driver set, and use it for all my crosshead needs.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Found the Canadian.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Don't discount hex, paired with a ball-end wrench, those are great for odd angles or tight spaces a straight wrench can't get too.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Not a single person sharing the xkcd comic about standards? Well I'm not doing it.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

I'm Jewish, so I'm going to have to go with the tamper-resistant Torx when I need to use screws on myself.

Edit: A troll flagged this as antisemitic, so apparently I hate my own ethnicity?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (5 children)

The EU should fine companies for introducing new standards that break old standards. Or any shit standards like Toslink: https://lemmy.world/comment/10671314 . Standardization organizations shouldn't be sleeping through all this shit.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Why is screw DLC legal? Why are people ok with companies preventing people from working in their own devices?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Tamper proof is to prevent random idiots from messing with your stuff.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Why does Torx Plus have six teeth but tamper-resistant Torx Plus has five? Whereas 'what the fuck is this' basically looks like it should be tamper-resistant Torx Plus?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I guess they wanted to make the screws even more tamper-resistant? With the standard Torx Tamper-Resistant screws, they could often be bypassed by chiseling the pin away with a flathead and a hammer, and then using a standard Torx driver. Can't do that with the pentalobular design!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Torx drivers are forward compatible with Torx plus screws

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Torx is the 🐐! Phillips are just terrible, I prefer slotted over Phillips. You can slip out quite easily with slotted but if you are in there they work ok.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

+1 for hex, but that's in a lab setting


climate controlled environment, generally not high torque, pretty benign conditions. But even that is fraught with metric-vs.-imperial mix ups.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

The key is to drag the US into the future along with literally everyone but Liberia and Myanmar.

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