Yeah, no Robertson drive screws here, but square drive screws are easily found and often used.
A good drill probably would've worked, too. Yeah, you would've had to resist torquing, but the screws will generally go in faster and you won't have to listen to constant BBBLLAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTT!!!! (it amazes me how my cordless impacts are louder than my 1/2" pneumatic impact)
But more importantly, hex/torx/square (square>torx>hex IMO) would work a heck of a lot better for doing a deck. Treated lumber and all (plus you'd be doing what? screwing 2x4's to a 4x4 or better?). THEN you'd need that impact.
Square drive screws ARE Robertson screws...
Square drive screws ARE Robertson screws...
I've never heard of a robertson head screw in my life. We have plenty of square drive stuff, though.
I'm gonna start calling torx 'McBoogerheimerschnauzer head'
Phillips is designed to cam out. Everything else...isn't. That's a pretty fair difference.
But phillips works fine for most applications where you would use a 'screw' and not a 'bolt' (Random FYI: Europeans don't have words for 'bolt' apparently. BMW, Volvo, and others call everything a 'screw'). Other than driving into solid wood without a pilot.
Phillips is designed to cam out. Everything else...isn't. That's a pretty fair difference.
Uh, they sell those at every big box hardware store in the US?
By "pushing" the screw in I never had problems with stripping philips screw heads, the bit or screw would usually break first.
The Robertson are not common where I live. I don't see them at Lowes or HD. I hate Philips, can't torque it before it strips.
You need an impact driver. I will never attempt to drive a screw with any other type of screw gun.
Because you only have enough GOOD screws to assemble one? :whiste:
No, cause our tank is put together with Robertson screws and the US tanks are put together with Phillips. When they go over a mine field, the US tanks fall apart, but the Canadian tank stays together because of Robertson power.
Why can't everything just be hex...