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Okay you can find the bits, but what about the screws? I was specifically looking for them a while back and turns out the vast majority of screws that I was fin

Okay you can find the bits, but what about the screws? I was specifically looking for them a while back and turns out the vast majority of screws that I was finding at stores (home depot, lowes, various local places) were still phillips. The ones that were robertsons or torx were the wrong configuration (metal, size, head type, etc). I ended up buying some online instead. Just to show some data, go to home depot page and look at the screws categorized by drive style: I'm seeing ~2600 phillips heads, ~500 star (which appears to be torx under a different name), 55 square, and 27 torx (under the torx name).

danachow 4y ago
>> At the moment they're a hard bit for a layperson to find, regardless of their advantages That was the original comment, that is all I responded to - which is just a completely ridiculous. And if you work on cars, you'll encounter the fasteners all the time. But there's a very popular construction screw sold at Home Depot, etc that uses a "star" bit. The overall fastener selection at Home Depot isn't amazing, never has been - they've never been much of a hardware store. Check Grainger or something.
antisthenes 4y ago
> Okay you can find the bits, but what about the screws? I was specifically looking for them a while back and turns out the vast majority of screws that I was finding at stores (home depot, lowes, various local places) were still phillips. Home Depot / Lowes is at least 50% torx screws these days. They're impossible to miss. Not sure where you're looking, but I'm talking about the actual physical store. Especially if you look at screws intended for decking/lumber, it'll be an even higher % than 50.