• LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz
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      17 hours ago

      Technically Robertson has a taper to it, while square drive doesn’t. Though nobody really differentiates it in common usage.

      At least with star drive, while they are the same, pretty much everyone calls them Torx.

    • evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world
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      9 hours ago

      It’s called Robertson by proud Canadians, in the US, at least, “square” is common. A square drive also wasn’t invented by Robertson, he just made the tooling for manufacturing the screws to be economical.

      • AnyOldName3@lemmy.world
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        16 hours ago

        If you’re looking at a guide like this, it’s pretty likely that it’s because you need to know what to put into a search engine to buy the right screwdriver, so it’s absolutely got value to know the name other people are using for a thing and selling it as.