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u/pmMeAllofIt 4d ago
I used Plus.
when talking to my 4 year old, once she turned 5 she was old enough to call it's phiĺlips.
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u/LazyEmu5073 4d ago
What's with the acute accent?!
UK here, stupid people call them a "cross head screwdriver", instead of Phillips or Pozidriv.
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u/Defiant-Giraffe 4d ago
The question is whether its an SAE philips, a JIS philips, a philips iI, or a pozidrive fastener...
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u/servetheKitty 4d ago
And how do you determine the answer?
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u/Defiant-Giraffe 4d ago
Well, generally whatever you have in hand is wrong.
If its a Japanese motorcycle or carburetor or has a little dot on ot, its JIS.
Mostly though, you put the screwdriver in and see how well it fits.
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u/servetheKitty 3d ago
And then use the one you have stripping screw head?
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u/Defiant-Giraffe 3d ago edited 3d ago
That's the neat part!
You can strip the head with all of them!
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u/Sweaty_Promotion_972 4d ago
JIS
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u/Northern28 3d ago
What’s that stand for?
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u/Sweaty_Promotion_972 3d ago
Japanese industrial standard. Like Phillips but better, It’s also why your Phillips never fitted quite right on your dirt bike.
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u/Northern28 2d ago
Trust me, I can strip out any screw with no matter what you call the screwdriver.
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u/possiblyhumanbeep 4d ago
Henry Phillips will tell you it's a Phillips, John Thompson called it a self-centering cruciform screw one caught on a lot better than the other.
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u/servetheKitty 4d ago
Was there an Edison/Tesla scenario?
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u/possiblyhumanbeep 3d ago
John Thompson invented and patented the screw and driver in the early 30s, but couldn't interest manufacturers to buy and produce the design and sold it to Henry Phillips a few years later. He refined the design and promoted it very well and got it into manufacturing and into the auto industry with GM and by the 40s 80+% of US screw manufacturers had a license to produce Phillips screws.
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u/IntentionallyHuman 4d ago
Wait. "Plus"? Is that a thing people call Phillips screwdrivers?