• blackris@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 days ago

    I have never in my life seen such a screw. Hexagon is the shit here, when it isnt Phillips. Maybe coming from Ikea, I don’t know. Is this format a (popular) US thing?

    • AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      Ya Ikea standardized on hex because it’s cheap to mass produce. It definitely strips though.

      Torx has slowly been gaining popularity in the US for a decade or two now, but sadly Phillips is still pretty popular and hex is pretty common also, you will see the square/Robertson screws a lot in electrical panels and in cabinetry but not super common at the hardware store.