Screw rule

RothyBuyak@lemmy.blahaj.zone to 196@lemmy.blahaj.zone – 410 points –
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Anyone who willfully uses a slotted screw on a new project in the presence of even somewhat reasonable alternatives should have a lifetime ban on designing any items for anyone.

Also, use Robertsons, gink.

it’s single valid use: somewhere that you may not have tools but might require an impromptu fix… preferably paired with a much larger screw than technically required so you can use things like coins as a driver

Yeah, like mounting plates for cameras…. Um, I think that’s the only place I’ve appreciated a slot screw

Sewing machine too! Always using scissors to open that slot screw to change the needle

We put slots on the thumbscrews used on some of our connectors for military radios. This was a soldier can open or tighten them down with a knife blade.

Fuck electrical wall plates I guess then? It’s so hard to find any switch plates or device plates that come with Phillips instead of Slotted.

Yeah fuck them, i hate those stupid slippery slotted bastards