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Probably at the hardware store picking up more Phillips head screws.

  • glibg10b@lemmy.zip
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    I think a lot of people who strip screws do so because no one told them that Phillips and Posidriv are different and incompatible

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      They literally don’t teach it at school and I’m pretty sure my grandpa couldn’t tell the difference either so quite literally nobody taught me until I got a screwdriver kit that had both PH and PZ.

    • hovercat@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Even worse is JIS, where it seems that its explicit and singular goal was to make a screw that would be instantly obliterated the moment a Phillips driver touched it. Fun fact, JIS drivers work far better on Phillips than Phillips drivers do, and I’ve yet to strip one since using JIS drivers almost exclusively