Hot Rods Reed Prince

Some years ago the sheetrock industry experimented with using square drive screws in drywall screw guns. Quickly rejected, the driver wouldn't turn loose of the screw quick enough........would drive it half way through the sheet.

 

So who decided straight slot screwdrivers should now be known as flathead screwdrivers?

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I've lead a sheltered life so from the ***le I didn't have a clue what the subject of the thread was about. I thought maybe it was an announcement that some old time hot rodder had p***ed. RIP
So now, when Mommy asks, "What did you learn in school today?", I can answer that if you build a better mousetrap, the world may beat a path to your door for a while and then switch paths to somewhere else sooner or later.

 

After all these years I never knew this. I find it very interesting..

 

There it that other cross head screw. More shallow point the either of the two we are talking about. It is usually found in old radios and other electronics. I can't remember the name right now! Craftsman used to include one in an ***ortment. It never fit a screw I had. Until I took an old radio to a friend to get fixed and he showed me what they were for.

 

Far, far superior to Phillips. Henry screwed himself out of a deal with Robertson, otherwise they may very well have become an American standard.

 

Screwed himself out of a screw deal?
Somehow that sounds kinda *****.

 

I'm a carpenter/remodeler sort. Those Torx screws, everybody calls them star drive, those have changed the world. You can drive a screw where no screw has ever gone before. And then you have to always carry around several different driver tips: #2 Phillips, small square drive, bigger square drive, and 2 or 3 different sizes of star drive.