Why flathead screws haven’t been completely phased out or replaced by Philips head screws
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Forget Philips. Robertsons are 100 times better, but my understanding is the inventor wouldn’t license others to make them.
Forget Philips. Robertsons are 100 times better, but my understanding is the inventor wouldn’t license others to make them.
Forget Philips. Robertsons are 100 times better, but my understanding is the inventor wouldn’t license others to make them.
Philips were designed to be their own torque-limiting design. You’re not supposed to be pressing into it really hard to make it really tight. The fact that the screwdriver wants to slide out is meant to be a hint that it’s already tight enough. Stop making it worse.
Flathead screwdrivers have a lot less of that, which may be desirable depending on the application. They’re easier to manufacture and less prone to getting stripped.
Honestly, Philips is the abomination.
Because Phillips are **terrible** & robertson or torx aren’t popular enough to replace them while being expensive to machine..
Flat head is much simpler to machine & lets you use a coin as a driver when torque isn’t a priority.
Flat head has it’s place, **phillips** needs to die
Philips were designed to be their own torque-limiting design. You’re not supposed to be pressing into it really hard to make it really tight. The fact that the screwdriver wants to slide out is meant to be a hint that it’s already tight enough. Stop making it worse.
Flathead screwdrivers have a lot less of that, which may be desirable depending on the application. They’re easier to manufacture and less prone to getting stripped.
Honestly, Philips is the abomination.
Because Phillips are **terrible** & robertson or torx aren’t popular enough to replace them while being expensive to machine..
Flat head is much simpler to machine & lets you use a coin as a driver when torque isn’t a priority.
Flat head has it’s place, **phillips** needs to die
Philips were designed to be their own torque-limiting design. You’re not supposed to be pressing into it really hard to make it really tight. The fact that the screwdriver wants to slide out is meant to be a hint that it’s already tight enough. Stop making it worse.
Flathead screwdrivers have a lot less of that, which may be desirable depending on the application. They’re easier to manufacture and less prone to getting stripped.
Honestly, Philips is the abomination.
Because Phillips are **terrible** & robertson or torx aren’t popular enough to replace them while being expensive to machine..
Flat head is much simpler to machine & lets you use a coin as a driver when torque isn’t a priority.
Flat head has it’s place, **phillips** needs to die
Two different issues here.
1) Why is flathead still around? It’s *very* easy/cheap to make (both fastener and tooling), it can be good for high torque, and it’s the easiest to improvise a tool for.
2) Why Philips? Philips has only one useful property…it’s self-limiting on torque. This is useful for certain kinds of automated assembly and basically nowhere else. If you’re not going to use flat, literally anything other than Philips is better about 99% of the time. Philips should die.
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