• Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca
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    20 hours ago

    Philips/Square/Slotted (all three combined) is really common in North American electrical. Switches, outlets, breakers; all commonly use them for terminal screws.

    Great for lower torque applications; you certainly wouldn’t use them for like a deck/structural screw.

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        10 hours ago

        Robertson on it’s own, yes. As long as you use the proper size driver before you round out the square.

        When you start carving out space for additional drivers though, the screw head becomes much weaker. The combo Robertson/Slotted/Philips screw heads will not standup to the same forces.

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          10 hours ago

          Makes sense, I haven’t seen Robby+inferior. What the world needs is a Roberson deep, and a torx shallow, on the same head. Everybody can use one of the best 2 drives without fighting about which is better