Poll: best type of screw driver head

[FoBoT]

Which is the superior screw head?

i of course voted for Square/Robertson , as any good woodworker would

 

[PsychoAndy]

slotted, since you can usually use anything to open them, like a screwdriver, knife, random thin piece of metal, etc. Or hex, since you can use pliers

 

[notfred]

torx, except that I never have the damn right size driver for them.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

It's not "slotted" it's "standard"

but I voted Phillips

nik

 

[Migroo]

Phillips

 

[kgraeme]

<< torx, except that I never have the damn right size driver for them. >>

 

[Capn]

I'm a socket head man myself, for grunt work though I'll take a hex. Slotted screws are worthless (boo)

 

[bizmark]

torx all the way baby! You never have to worry about slippage! Slotted sucks!

 

[JC]

Phillips

A curse on the man who invented the slotted screw :|

JC

 

[HappyPuppy]

How many people here even know what a Robertson head screw is? I doubt many.

 

[aphex]

Phillips is my bitch.

 

[Capn]

<< It's not "slotted" it's "standard" >>




Says who?

You should add drilled spanner head to your list just for kicks, also that screw head they use in the bathroom stalls all the time.

 

[eplebnista]

<< Phillips >>

 

[Cyberian]

Isn't hex and Allen the same thing??

How about Reed and Prince?
How about Bristo?
Pozidriv?

 

[DAPUNISHER]

I didn't see the Vodka and Orange juice choice...so I didn't vote

 

[FoBoT]

<< Slotted screws are worthless (boo) >>



i concur

 

[PsychoAndy]

<< Isn't hex and Allen the same thing??

How about Reed and Prince?
How about Bristo?
Pozidriv? >>


Allen = stick a hex inside a hole, turn. Hex = big screw with a hex at the end of it, which you can take off with wrench or socket, i believe.

 

[Cyberian]

<<

<< Isn't hex and Allen the same thing??

How about Reed and Prince?
How about Bristo?
Pozidriv? >>


Allen = stick a hex inside a hole, turn. Hex = big screw with a hex at the end of it, which you can take off with wrench or socket, i believe. >>

I know what you mean, but he did say 'screw driver head'.
We always used the terms Allen wrenches and hex keys interchangeably.

 

[DanFungus]

haha slotted....think about this:
try screwing in a slotted screw, and NOT have it slip....now that screw is on your precious mobo...slit AH &*%@&%!
Most other types of screws:
yay, the screw went in perfectly....
just a hypothetical situation, but a realistic one none-the-less

 

[FoBoT]

<<
Allen = stick a hex inside a hole, turn. Hex = big screw with a hex at the end of it, which you can take off with wrench or socket, i believe. >>



thank you PsychoAndy
i was trying how to explain it without a picture

 

[Evadman]

You forgot a few.

The big one is the unsripable new one that is a cross between a #3 philips and a square drive. Used mostly for decking now.

And I work at Home Depot so you can bet I know what a Robertson is

 

[apoppin]

I prefer a Philips screwdriver . . .



vodka and milk of magnesia.

 

[bunker]

Definitely Robertson. I have stripped torx in the past (damn thing was in there good!) and have yet to see a Robertson strip.

 

[Mucman]

Robertson!!! Wasn't it also invented in Canada?

 

[Kadarin]

<< Hex = big screw with a hex at the end of it, which you can take off with wrench or socket, i believe. >>



Er, that would be a bolt, not a screw.. In fact, the "screws" with Allen heads are also bolts, I believe.