What is your least favorite hardware to work with?

[Cranberry Juice]

What is your least favorite hardware to work with in RC, and what do you wish would be used instead? Mine is Philips head screws, and I wish they would use either Torx or square. Square are even better than Torx, and nigh impossible to strip.

 

[DavidB1126]

Sae hex. Bc I have mostly metric tools and sae seems to strip even more easily for me it seems. To be fair the only experience I had with sae hex is on a old XXT I was taking apart for a rebuild and the screw heads were quite rusty and havent moved in well over 25 years lol.

If talking just in general not rc, id say flat head. Sucks more if I use a flat head bit with my electric driver. Most of the time it slips.

 

[Cranberry Juice]

Sae hex. Bc I have mostly metric tools and sae seems to strip even more easily for me it seems. To be fair the only experience I had with sae hex is on a old XXT I was taking apart for a rebuild and the screw heads were quite rusty and havent moved in well over 25 years lol.

If it should move and it doesn't, WD 40!

 

[DavidB1126]

If it should move and it doesn't, WD 40!

Very true lol

 

[Ramp addict]

Button head screws. They're designed from the ground up to strip. I'm with you that square or torx heads would be better.

 

[Suburban_Hooligan]

JIS screws. cause a Philips screwdriver will strip them. and who the hell has JIS screwdrivers?

 

[DavidB1126]

JIS screws. cause a Philips screwdriver will strip them. and who the hell has JIS screwdrivers?

Not me, not you, but Tamiya does.

 

[Cranberry Juice]

JIS screws. cause a Philips screwdriver will strip them. and who the hell has JIS screwdrivers?

I do! My iFixit kit came with them!

 

[RetroThutmose]

Reading glasses, can never find them

 

[Xraycer]

Reading glasses, can never find them

It's right on top of your head.