• 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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    2 days ago

    Where the hell do companies even find these super cheap, shitty screws that strip so easily? When I buy screws at a hardware store, they don’t ever get stripped unless I use an impact hammer drill with the wrong size head and the screw is really stuck in something (and it sometimes also just twists and breaks the entire screw at that point). But screws already in a thing I bought almost always get stripped hella easy using a hand tool.

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      2 days ago

      I’m no mechanic, so anytime I work with a drill, it’s to unscrew someone’s pervious work. I just jam the plus shaped head into the plus shaped hole and pray, just as the lord intended.

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      2 days ago

      I think it depends on the screw, what it’s for. Softer ones can bend without breaking, very important in most cases.

      And + sucks, * superiority.

      Drywall screws are hard because drywall is hard (as in like sandpaper) and doesn’t flex.

      PS Skill issue.