# Screwdriver heads

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screwdriver-heads/432474
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [January 6, 2008, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screwdriver-heads/432474 "2008-01-06T04:45:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author: ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2008, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screwdriver-heads/432474/41 "2008-01-09T10:33:57Z")

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This has been an interesting thread. I found myself looking at the flats on stage at last night’s panto rehearsal and nodding sagely. “Ah… someone’s been and turned a pozi screw with a Philips driver, and now look at it…” 😃

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### Author: ![Radegast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c4cdca/32.png) [@Radegast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Radegast)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2008, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screwdriver-heads/432474/42 "2008-01-10T12:03:04Z")

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[QUOTE=Malacandra]  
This has been an interesting thread. I found myself looking at the flats on stage at last night’s panto rehearsal and nodding sagely. “Ah… someone’s been and turned a pozi screw with a Philips driver, and now look at it…” 😃  
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When I built sets for a theatre company, we always used Roberston screws. They worked much better with power drivers than other types of screws, and made for very quick and problemless take-down when we did change-overs.

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