I'm seeing a lot of people here claiming that the Philips head was originally designed to cam out/strip to prevent a transfer of force sufficient to twist the head off. While I agree this does sound logically plausible, I could find no reference to such features in the original patent: https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/0f/28/e3/3e3075abbb9779/US2046837.pdf 🤷‍♂️

I submit that every screw in the world should be the six lobe slotted. For the stuff that’s not tamper-resistant, anyway.

You have the six lobe for actually building things, because fuck Phillips head screws, and the slot for convenience where you could use anything from a coin to a knife.

Here in the US, certain brands of deck screws for outdoor use are six lobe and they come with the driver bit in the box because everybody has the damn Phillips and flat head screwdrivers! But to be fair, if you have a bunch of tools you probably also have a set of torx drivers.

Torx master race has entered the chat.

What the actual fuck is a 'S type' screw? What purpose does that have that another normal screw type cannot provide? What madness is this?!

All IKEA furniture uses Pozidriv (no “e”, it’s a trademark). Not going to say if that’s good or bad, but operating a Pozidriv with a Phillips is always going to be terrible.

Pozidriv is clearly superior to Phillips

I'm a slotted screw HATER

Everything electrical uses them and it's a nightmare keeping the screwdriver aligned properly to try and take them out at a good speed

My favorite would be square drive but they always seem to make those out of recycled ham sandwiches or something

if you need to unscrew a torx screw and you don't have any torx bits, you can try using a flathead. it won't work and you'll probably get hurt doing it, but you can try it.

Op has never done any serious screw work it seems

Factually incorrect.

Torx and Square/Robertson are superior, Hex/Allen and Phillips are allowed a seat on this council but not granted the rank of master, Posidriv is theoretically Phillips++ but only to the six people in the world that know what it is and own a Posidriv screwdriver, to everyone else it's that goddamn Phillips that keeps camming out. JIS is parallel universe Phillips, it's exactly as reasonably okay as Phillips is for identical reasons, the biggest problem is that they exist alongside and closely resemble Phillips screws. Everything else except slotted is a mental disorder, and slotted was dropped on its head as a child.

No mention of JIS which is yet another "fuck Phillips" argument

Personally I wish we could eliminate flathead screw.

Phillips and pozi are actually designed to cam out (look it up on wikipedia). Started using torx a few years ago and I will never go back to pz again, even if it's on the clock and someone else is paying for materials.

Flat head still has it's place IMO, for example on machinery that gets used out in the field where you might need to improvise a driver out of a knife or coin or something.

Ph and pz are the work of the devil though.

Torx and PZ ftw.

Also, I'd like to apologise to the future owner of my house for making several constructions using both in no particular order.

We're screwed

The worst one I ever came across was five lobe tamperproof on a Seagate external hdd. Couldn't find any bits for it that didn't have to be imported. Ended with a rather destructive disassembly

There's a distinct lack of love for pozidrive here. It's like Phillips but without being shit.

Holy hell the entirety of Lemmy just exposed themselves as retarded jobless people.

Six lobe, or torx, is fucking awesome when screwing in serious screws. It's the reason why it replaced all philips and most hex heads.

Slotted screws are the fucking worst. You guys have never worked a blue collar job in your lives 🤣😂😭

They y-type screw is obnoxious.

I've only encountered those on Nintendo products, they are the worst.

I came here to show love for Robertson, but it looks like I didn't need to. You guys are the best. 😁