From: "Andrew C. Green" <dlogics!hermes.dlogics.com!acg@uu.psi.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1993 14:38:16 CDT
Keith writes:
> So, how many SOLers have pozidriv screwdrivers? I don't know about other
> marques, but those things that look like phillips on MG's aren't. They're
> pozidriv, a better fastener. The ones I removed from Biscuit's cowling
were
> almost totally rounded inside, but the pozidriv got them out.
I do. I got mine by running down a Snap-On truck to its lair and
extorting the two sizes they have from the driver by pressing money
into his hand...
What's the difference between Phillips and Pozidrive? (sp?) Does Pozidrive
have narrower flutes, or something like that?
I think that where Phillips has a cross-shaped slot, Pozidrive has a
cross-slot shaped a little differently, with extra little grooves at
the inside corners (that correspond to little splines on the driver):
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