/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1080489
Canuck here.

>strips quicker than you sister with a sip of beer in her

This.

I don't fucking get why everyone says square is the absolute mother-fucking shit. Sure, if you use the correct, specific, factory-fresh bit/driver and screw, it works absolutely perfectly. But what the fuck doesn't?

Personally, I have never rounded/stripped/flattened nor even seen a flat-head screw/bolt in such condition. Based on the shape of the slot, the only better hole to apply torsion and downward pressure would be something roughly S-shaped. The way I see it, a square is closer to a circle than a line. The closer the shape of the slot is to a circle, the easier it will be to round out due to the smaller and softer stress points of the screw/bolt head. Like, a hexagon works fine, but how well could you imagine a decagon-shaped slot working out for you? Theoretically, a triangle should work even better than the square or line if the flat-head slot is as shitty as everyone says.