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Actually -- the group on the right should read "men who THINK they need a phillips screwdriver"
by danesparza 12y ago
Actually -- the group on the right should read "men who THINK they need a phillips screwdriver"
- omnibrain 12y agoI don't understand the downvotes. Phillips Screwdrivers are next to useless. Most "crossed" screw heads are Pozidriv, which is superior. Or is this an(other) America/Europe thing?
- themodelplumber 12y agoBased on my immediate WTF IS POZIDRIV mental response, it must be another America/Europe thing. In my day-to-day American cheeseburger life I need phillips, flathead, maybe hex, and maybe torx. I carry a Victorinox Cadet because I cannot feel it on my person and it has the first two plus the pretty alox scales.
- cmsd2 12y agouk here. not sure i've ever seen a phillips screwdriver. we just use posidrive, but call it phillips all the same. i'm not old enough to remember pre-metric though.
- eridius 12y agoI've never heard of Pozidriv before, but reading about it on Wikipedia it says "They can be unscrewed with a regular Phillips screwdriver". So it sounds like Phillips screwdrivers are still quite useful.
- omnibrain 12y agoIt "sort of" works. A Pozidriv screwdriver will have better grip and if you apply too much force the PH screwdriver will possibly destroy your PZ screw head. (And vice versa).
- eridius 12y agoGood to know. For context, as an American, I've definitely seen Pozidriv screws before (without knowing that they were a distinct screw type from Phillips), but there's also plenty of Phillips screws here too. I'm not sure offhand which is more common here.
- MrDom 12y agoI'm US based and I've been taking things apart for 25 years. I've seen hex, torq, hell nintendo used those weird Y screws for a while. Had to google Posidriv and I've never seen one of those used here. Everything is Phillips.