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.

 

[BashingBrian]

and who the hell has JIS screwdrivers?

I do..!!

Get the correct tool for the correct job and 99.9% of the time you won't have any issues, most of the time I see people complaining about this hardware and that hardware it's usually user error that causes the problem..!!

My personal favourite is people stripping various hex heads to then show you pics of the heads full of dirt or soil and they wonder why the tool tip strips the bolt..

Oh, and on a side note any and all slot heads should burn in hell..!!

 

[CreepyQuarryCrawler]

Phillips hardware in general. That is the number one screw I have rounded in my life.

I've delt with poor hex drivers, weak screws, but if there is one screw I universally have hatred for, it's a Phillips.

- #2 Robinson haa now entered the chat

 

[Cranberry Juice]

I do..!!

Get the correct tool for the correct job and 99.9% of the time you won't have any issues, most of the time I see people complaining about this hardware and that hardware it's usually user error that causes the problem..!!

My personal favourite is people stripping various hex heads to then show you pics of the heads full of dirt or soil and they wonder why the tool tip strips the bolt..

Oh, and on a side note any and all slot heads should burn in hell..!!

I noticed my iFixit drivers actually fit better and have less wiggle in the heads than the ARRMA hexes that came with my car, so I use the iFixit bits instead.

 

[desmobob]

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.

I used to hate them too, then I learned about JIS vs. Phillips and bought JIS #1 and #2 screwdrivers. Once you've used both, you'll know right away if your choice of Phillips or JIS is correct for the fastener.

But it does stink that there are two types of these cross-head screws and identifying which is which is not immediately obvious by looking.

 

[xjtorc]

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

I ordered Tamiya JIS drivers to build my TT02 and they still strip.... FFS they're miserable.

 

[James A. Doty]

Oh man, how I wish you'd been talking about building radios because, except for having to go to the dentist, the thing I hate most on the entire planet is winding coils. I once let a project languish for over a year because I had six coils I needed to wind and I didn't want to. The stupid part is I'm very good at winding coils.

Any screw that doesn't take a Torx, socket, or, hex tool is my mortal enemy! Second only to e-clips. Oh how I hate e-clips.

 

[Cranberry Juice]

Oh man, how I wish you'd been talking about building radios because, except for having to go to the dentist, the thing I hate most on the entire planet is winding coils. I once let a project languish for over a year because I had six coils I needed to wind and I didn't want to. The stupid part is I'm very good at winding coils.

Any screw that doesn't take a Torx, socket, or, hex tool is my mortal enemy! Second only to e-clips. Oh how I hate e-clips.

E-clips suck, but I usually steal a tool my dad bought that does those clips that have the holes in the ends that you have to pry apart to get on and off, and it has a thing for e-clips too.

 

[Suburban_Hooligan]

Oh man, how I wish you'd been talking about building radios because, except for having to go to the dentist, the thing I hate most on the entire planet is winding coils. I once let a project languish for over a year because I had six coils I needed to wind and I didn't want to. The stupid part is I'm very good at winding coils.

I'm also very good at winding coils. after all, it is my day job. trip coils, shunt trip coils. close coils, under voltage coils. mainly for breakers and switchgear. but we've also done some kind of coil for a 70's tractor (international i think), a gear selector for an Alaskan fishing boat, brake coils for cranes, some other kind of brake coil for some big ass lathe. a government job where they wouldn't tell us what they (the coils) were for (don't know if the guy was serious, but "id tell you but then id have to kill you" was said over the phone )
from some tiny little bastards to some that are 20" around, 6" wide and weigh 65+ lbs. from 8 gauge wire down to 45 gauge wire.
and some of it is annoying as hell.

 

[Cranberry Juice]

I'm also very good at winding coils. after all, it is my day job. trip coils, shunt trip coils. close coils, under voltage coils. mainly for breakers and switchgear. but we've also done some kind of coil for a 70's tractor (international i think), a gear selector for an Alaskan fishing boat, brake coils for cranes, some other kind of brake coil for some big ass lathe. a government job where they wouldn't tell us what they (the coils) were for (don't know if the guy was serious, but "id tell you but then id have to kill you" was said over the phone )
from some tiny little bastards to some that are 20" around, 6" wide and weigh 65+ lbs. from 8 gauge wire down to 45 gauge wire.
and some of it is annoying as hell.

I think I'll stick to golf course maintenance for now, and carpentry soon.