Personally, any time I have a project, I always opt for torx (star). The screwdriver bits for them are not tapered so they don't push themselves back out of the screw-head (unlike phillips), so they tend to stay in place and grip much better. It's a lot harder to screw up a torx screw or bit than a phillips one.

[–] tour_glum@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same. I use torx for everything. Also gotta love the square Robertson ones, they're just not common where I live. I hate Philips, although for anyone not aware, there is a difference between posi drive an Philips and going to the effort of making sure you have the correct one massively reduces torquing out and damage to screw head.

[–] catshit_dogfart@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

IMO, phillips is for electronics and some small applications. Something you're really not putting much pressure on and probably driving by hand and not a power tool.

[–] flpasc@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

I. Love. Torx! They just work! Don’t mind the angle, don’t mind the force! They’re just perfect! Never going back. (At least for everything related to woodworking)

[–] snaf@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They actually were designed to cam out in low torque applications so consumers could not over-tighten them. The problem is now those consumers only know what a phillips is, so they're used for everything.

[–] RubberElectrons@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hilariously, that "purposeful cam-out" was the manufacturers/patent-holders trying to turn a bug into a feature. https://handwiki.org/wiki/Engineering:Cam_out