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  • What's wrong with Phillips head and what do you recommend instead? I still get frustrated with the single slotted screws in most of my dad's stuff.

  • Torx are harder to fuck up, tool has better engagement.

    The flexible engagement of Phillips and JIS is a design feature to prevent over torquing.

    Torx is fine but in the hands of someone who thinks it's ok to put 100nm in to a small to medium fixing it's a disaster. That includes a badly calibrated robot ;)

  • ...but also easier to strip whatever you’re driving the fixing into as a result.

    The common pozi-drive head is designed to cam-out when over-torqued and is a better fit for most wood fastening use cases. Doesn’t look as cool as a Torx tho...

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