WHERE ARE MY PRECISION SCREWDRIVERS
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The main problem wthe the X shaped model is that there are so many different versions with different angles and points oe lack thereof that it can be hard to tell which is which at a glance, increasing the chance of stripping if you don't check for proper fit.
Not to mention you might be working on something where the prior person mixed and matched different screws head types on the same project!
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Pozidriv and Phillips are quite easy to tell apart imo
But JIS and Phillips blows
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Pozidriv and Phillips are quite easy to tell apart imo
But JIS and Phillips blows
If people know what they are looking for and the screws weren't painted over...
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Torx needs to become the standard for screws. They are just better in every way.
In wood yes. But please keep them off my bike. You suddenly really start to enjoy the ball end of your Allen keys when working in tight spots and torx has none of that (and some brand are starting to use more and more torx on their models)
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If you do this you have two options. Either put a piece of rubber from a balloon, latex glove etc between the screw and the screwdriver. Or use a hacksaw to put a slot in the top of the screw and use a flathead screwdriver.
Arrooooo
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If you do this you have two options. Either put a piece of rubber from a balloon, latex glove etc between the screw and the screwdriver. Or use a hacksaw to put a slot in the top of the screw and use a flathead screwdriver.
Another option for smaller screws is just to drill out the head, it will let go.
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If you do this you have two options. Either put a piece of rubber from a balloon, latex glove etc between the screw and the screwdriver. Or use a hacksaw to put a slot in the top of the screw and use a flathead screwdriver.
YES BECOME FLATHEAD.
ive also used torqx and pounded them in. Like a poor mans easy out, works about 20% of the time -
If you do this you have two options. Either put a piece of rubber from a balloon, latex glove etc between the screw and the screwdriver. Or use a hacksaw to put a slot in the top of the screw and use a flathead screwdriver.
There is a third: manual impact driver
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Looking at this makes me physically ill
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If you do this you have two options. Either put a piece of rubber from a balloon, latex glove etc between the screw and the screwdriver. Or use a hacksaw to put a slot in the top of the screw and use a flathead screwdriver.
am i the only person with a set of screw extractor bits?
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am i the only person with a set of screw extractor bits?
I never even knew it was a thing. I'm assuming most people don't have them.
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If you do this you have two options. Either put a piece of rubber from a balloon, latex glove etc between the screw and the screwdriver. Or use a hacksaw to put a slot in the top of the screw and use a flathead screwdriver.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]I thought all my stripped screw troubles would end when I found this tip and seeing how much it’s suggested. But all that ever happens is I pierce the gripping medium due to the force required. Maybe there is a quality option that can withstand this but I’m probably buying extractors if I’m spending money at that point.
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Pozidriv and Phillips are quite easy to tell apart imo
But JIS and Phillips blows
wrote on last edited by [email protected]JIS is much better than Phillps, as long as you have the exact matching driver.
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I bought a precision screwdriver set to replace the failing RAM on my thin lenovo laptop, which has super tiny screw on the ram slot, withing the first few turns of the screwdriver, I stripped that screw. Fucking thing would not budge, tried the rubber band trick, tried to even find somewhere I can borrow a dremel to cut a line on the head for a flat head, finally had to take it to the repair center at a Micro center and they somehow got it out. Never buying a thin laptop again, and will always check online for repair ability
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I never even knew it was a thing. I'm assuming most people don't have them.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Forklift Mechanic, here. It indeed is, a thing.
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Torx needs to become the standard for screws. They are just better in every way.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]A carbide set of torx bits make a great set of hex extractors. Hell, torx can sometimes be tapped into a drilled hole and turned. Half of the broken or sheared bolts I remove at the shop, I just use a torx bit.
When your bit is used to rescue bolts made with inferior bits, you know you've won.
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Where the hell do companies even find these super cheap, shitty screws that strip so easily? When I buy screws at a hardware store, they don't ever get stripped unless I use an impact hammer drill with the wrong size head and the screw is really stuck in something (and it sometimes also just twists and breaks the entire screw at that point). But screws already in a thing I bought almost always get stripped hella easy using a hand tool.
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i hope i don't need to do maintenance in my motorcycles front end again anytime soon. its gonna be a removed to remove those screws without ruining it.
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A carbide set of torx bits make a great set of hex extractors. Hell, torx can sometimes be tapped into a drilled hole and turned. Half of the broken or sheared bolts I remove at the shop, I just use a torx bit.
When your bit is used to rescue bolts made with inferior bits, you know you've won.
Holy shit, someone who does it as well! Torx bits are so useful for this, I have a fairly high success rate even on the tiny terrible electronics screws I usually work on.
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I never even knew it was a thing. I'm assuming most people don't have them.
I see sales for them all the time at hardware stores.
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Torx ftw
