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What is something that desperately needs to be standardized? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[–] 56 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Nuts, bolts, and screw heads.

I know we need various sizes for various tasks, but I shouldn't have to dig through 50 different screwdrivers or ratchet heads and still not have one that'll work.

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  • [–] 31 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I replace crappy ones when I remove them.

    I'll tolerate Phillips, but slotted gets replaced with torx. Phillips get replaced if they get damaged.

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Torx are pretty great

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Everything should be torx

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    There are reasons why you can't have Torx in some situations. For example, sanitary machine designs. Preference is a flanged hex head. If flush mount is required, then slotted is best (even though they do suck for every other reason)

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  • [–] 20 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Best of luck with that mate. Do you know how many different cross-shaped drives there are already?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_screw_drives

    And if you really want to get upset about confused standards you should read the section of the Talk page about why JIS B 1012 was removed:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_screw_drives

    They ARE distinct from standard Phillips, and posidrive. If one tries to use Phillips on them you'll likely strip the head.

    [...]

    As discussed, the previous paragraph was wrong and (as of now) uncited, so it was removed. No information is better than wrong information.

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  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Those are already standardized though…

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  • [–] 31 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    There are 14 competing standards. We need to develop one universal standard that covers everyone's use cases.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago

    I'll just be happy when we phase out imperial and other weird thread types. Metric standardisation is a godsend over what came before.

    The heads are a lost cause. They serve too many different purposes, with differing, competing, requirements.

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