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Regular people cannot handle using torx. Philips is nice because (untrained) people naturally will over-tighten the fuck out of every screw they encounter. Phi
by Workaccount2 3y ago
Regular people cannot handle using torx.
Philips is nice because (untrained) people naturally will over-tighten the fuck out of every screw they encounter. Philips cams out and prevents them from going too far overboard. In fact its literal design goal was to make a screw that is hard to over-tighten.
I know if we used torx on some of our products, we'd spent 10000% more time on removing snapped screw bodies.
- BobaFloutist 3y agoIt's me, I'm untrained people. Is there a decent convention for how much a screw should be tightened, or is it fully case-by-case?
- Workaccount2 3y agoThere are torque specs and torque wrenches to solve this problem in manufacturing. For day to day, 95% of the time you can tighten a screw gently until it stops, its head fully against the surface, then just "snug it up" a bit to seat it. "Snug it up" is of course vague, so refer back to line 1.