Why the fuck do manufacturers still use shitty screws like JIS/Phillips for tiny screws when much better alternatives like Torx exist?
Shitty Screws
Lincoln Scott
Joseph Cook
WHY USE BETTER x WHEN CHEAPER x EXISTS?
KIND REGARDS,
ANY MANUFACTURER
Adrian Ramirez
Are torx really that more expensive than JIS?
Nathan Fisher
This lol. Needed to remove the battery cover to flash custom firmware, (There's two contact you need to bridge to unlock the flash for writing) but turns out I stripped it years ago. I got it out eventually though.
Jacob Martin
I just received a tri-wing driver (hate those fucking things) in the mail today so I wanted to take my DS apart. I stripped the fucking battery cover screw in the process (almost impossible to avoid) so I just pried the cover up from the other end breaking one of the retaining tabs and then rotated the cover until the screw came out. Pretty sure it was a fucking captive screw too so I had to damage the cover even further to get it out. Fucking nintendo. My old Xperia phone uses Torx screws and I must've taken it apart over 20 times now with absolutely no degradation of the screws.
Andrew Hall
IT'S OKAY WHEN NINTENDO DOES IT
Cooper Collins
re-tooling an assembly line is expensive. To use Torx screws you need torque-limiting drivers to prevent over-tightening the screw and damaging the part.
With a Phillips head screw the driver will just pop out if you try to over-tighten, with no damage to anything.
TL;DR: phillips screws can be installed by niggers operating nigger machines in a nigger factory, whereas torx require more precision.
Lincoln Rogers
I don't understand why they went to the trouble of making it a captive screw though, there's pretty much no way of opening it and closing it more than once without permanently fucking the screw up. It's not like any consumer is expected to be opening the battery cover anyway.
Nathaniel Campbell
Because not everyone has torx drivers laying around
Andrew Peterson
Macs are awful for this since they just mix and match. Tri-wing screws for the battery, torx for the motherboard, phillips for the case and disc drive. Just use torx for everything, it's superior in every way.