one-way and square look like JANK

>>2788
>I have literally never come across a stripped flat head screw, meanwhile I find stripped flat head screws all the time.
This statement is paradoxical.

>>2790
Bleeeeeeh. Meant to say I find stripped philips head screws all the time.

Yeah, stripping phillips stuff isn't hard to do at all and does seem far more prone to it than the regular kind. Maybe this was back when they were made from higher quality material or something because I agree in that it's the other way around in reality. Or maybe it's true if you have the exact size that was tailor made for a specific screw?
I think manufactures want their screws to break apart if the consumer tries to fix things since it's lost revenue if they do manage to fix it themselves.

Maybe they don't use slotted screws in situations where stripping is likely because they're weaker to it.

are you guys talking about stripping of the threads or stripping of the head

>>2794
The head. I've never experienced the threads being stripped. That sounds like something you could only do with a drill, or from having cross-threaded plastic or wood thread grooves.

>>2794
Head, yeah. My experience is mostly on the smaller ones used on consoles and other electronics. Maybe it's different on the bigger ones on furniture and stuff. I hate small screws so much. And then there's companies that Nintendo that make their own shapes to discourage repair or piracy so you have to buy a separate screw for those. I guess there's a difference between building for or against the customer's benefit.

>>2798
>that Nintendo
LIKE Nintendo

robertson screws are the best because they're canadain

>>2788
Power tools is why. You need to have it centered with a little bit of give to odd angles and philips lets you do that just fine. If you try screwing in a flat head with a power tool then you'll strip it if you're not perfectly dead on and center. Philips also just freely stick to the end of the drivers a lot better when you're lining it up. The reason philips gets stripped a lot is poor technique. If a screw is in tight and you aren't putting a lot of pressure on it then the driver will climb out, and as it's a harder steel than the screw head, it starts stripping it.