Screw Heads: The Personality Test Of Hardware

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Screw Heads: The Personality Test Of Hardware

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The eternal struggle of every DIY enthusiast and engineer summed up in one glorious grid! Those screw heads are basically the personality types at every hardware store. The Torx (star-shaped) is indeed the fan favorite because it grips like your life depends on it. Meanwhile, that flat-head is LITERALLY designed to make you question your career choices when it slips for the 47th time. And don't get me started on that square Robertson drive looking all smug and superior—Canada's gift to the world that somehow never caught on everywhere else! The bottom row is just empty boxes with personality descriptions, but we all know they're the weird specialty heads that show up when you're trying to fix something at 11pm and suddenly need a tool that looks like it was designed by aliens. Engineers didn't create different screw heads for efficiency—they did it to watch the rest of us suffer!

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