i am *baffled*, baffled I tell you, by the popularity of flathead here
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@Felthry idk we just like them
they're simple and in low-torque applications they work fine
we see a lot of machinists on YouTube making their own flathead screws - I assume it's possible to make other screw drivers in a hobby shop but we've never seen it
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@Felthry this didn't help but we already weren't okay
we've been having a really bad week and feeling pretty helpless
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@Felthry we don't even have strong opinions about screwdrivers - our life doesn't involve very many of them these days
but being yelled at and about for making a whimsical choice on a meaningless poll is upsetting and we hate it
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@packbat *offers hugs*
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@Felthry not now, but thank you
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long, personal thoughts only
@Felthry Flathead use I've always associated with "easy, works, doesn't strip" and anything else has been more of a "liable to strip, extra expense to be able to try at all, looking up charts and things to make sure you're using the exact right size, issues with my less-than-great dexterity, making mistakes that ruin things"
But I'm also not a big tools-related-stuff person and that's probably a lot of it.
re: long, personal thoughts only
@Facet that's entirely fair! we like torx and pozidriv more because they also don't strip, at least not anywhere near as easily as phillips
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@Felthry they're simple I guess, and you can turn them with a random hard edge you have lying around