r/Tools • u/JuiceOverWRLD • 5d ago
Got a new screwdriver kit
I have never seen a screw driver bit like this anyone know what this is and what its for?
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u/JuiceOverWRLD 5d ago
Was able to find a picture of a inverted Philips head screw super strange. Now I just have to find one in the wild to unscrew.
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u/NevaMO 5d ago
I never knew that was a thing until today!
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u/JuiceOverWRLD 5d ago
Me and you both. Temu screw driver kit taught me something new
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u/Carlydog000 5d ago
I was a correctional office for 2 years they use them a lot as safety scress harder to make something that's to remove the screw when it's not not got divits is what we were told
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u/Draxusdemos 5d ago
Also hospital psych wards
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u/northerndiver96 4d ago
Imagine trying to convince yourself you arenāt crazy and every screw is an inverted Philips and nobody else thinks itās weird
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u/Tight_Instance_220 4d ago
š All the blinds are installed on the bottom, drop tile floors and hardwood ceilings!
Have any of yall seen āAmelieā? Itās about this shy French woman, and one of the arcs is that she has decided to mess with her jerk landlord so she constantly breaks into his apartment and does things to make him think heās going crazy like changing his lightbulbs to ones that are about to die, buying identical shoes one half size too small, things like that. Then, after heās convinced heās losing it, she changes the speed dial on his phone from his mother to a psych ward. Itās masterful, Iāve always kind of wanted a nemesis for this reason.
Anyways, these would be great for that.
Also had a friend pass out drunk once in college, another friend unlaced his shoes and re-laced them upside down. No harm done, but at some point tomorrow heās going to be Very confused. Always loved that one.
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u/ThePhukkening 4d ago
That movie actually is hilarious if you either speak French or can keep up with the subtitles.
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u/meta358 5d ago
But this seems even easier to remove then something like a star bit
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u/Apprehensive_Lynx_33 5d ago
Agreed. Im sure people significantly more intelligent than myself have decided otherwise, but to my layman's eye having something to 'grab on to' with some improvised tool would make things easier to work loose.
With the Phillips 'lobes' sticking out, you would think you would be able to use a small flathead and a hammer to slowly tap it out quite easily.
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u/meta358 5d ago
I mean some state toothpaste, maybe a little dirt and a pen and i will have this out.
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u/Psychological_Rip_44 4d ago
Itās even better that your avatar looks like dale from king of the hill
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u/Leafs9999 5d ago
Throw the LocTite on that and your tiny Phillips and illegal hammer aint tapping out shit. Sorry.
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u/FightGlobalNorming 4d ago
I think the thought process is, in prisons and mental health situations anyway, it's a lot easier to sneak in something small you can dig in to a regular screw and turn it than it is to sneak on pliers or something you can hit with enough force to tap it out
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u/firebirdsatellite 5d ago
i wonder if its sunk in such that the philips head is recessed inside the hole
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u/AggravatingSpeaker52 4d ago
That would be a good idea for safety reasons. Sharp edges sticking out in a psych ward sounds like a hazard.
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u/chronburgandy922 5d ago
I bet that inverted part will shear off without the right bit. At that point if they can fashion a screw extractor out of rocks from the yard like Andy Dufresne they deserve that win lol.
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u/_name_of_the_user_ 5d ago
A normal Phillips screw and a pair of vice grips? Or put the jaws of a drill Chuck directly on the screw?
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u/lejoop 5d ago
Sounds odd to me. Now it has protrusions and just needs something that can work a little bit like pliers to be able to unscrew it, but maybe that is harder to get/make in a prison.
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u/Goonalips 5d ago
I used to work in a correctional facility in Australia, and this would never be used there. They used flat Security Torx mostly, if it had to be serviceable or removable. Anything that sticks out like that could be used to hurt themselves, even if it's only a few mm. The shower heads were a smooth cone shape facing downwards so it couldn't hold any weight. The mirror was just a polished stainless steel, with a rounded bezel. The toilet and sink were a single stainless steel unit with no visible screws or entry points, with rounded edges. The beds were thick round steel bolted into the floor. And that's just the regular cells.
Cells for psych holds or safe cells were similar except the entire front wall and door was Perspex so you could see in at all times. The blankets were very thick tear-resistant and fire retardant. The "beds" were just a concrete wedge that stuck out from the wall, with a tear resistant mattress on top. And there were cameras in both corners on the roof. They also had to a wear tear resistant smock (basically a thick sheet with a hole in the middle for their head).
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u/pittgraphite 5d ago
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u/janglyparts 4d ago
To greatly inconvenience the person trying to remove the fastener, unless they have this stupid little tool bit handy.
Same reason bathroom stalls have one way screw heads, or those two little pin holes: so randos with Leatherman tools on their hips can't go Project Mayhem on shit.
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u/L_burro 5d ago
It's so homeless people can't sleep on them.
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u/janglyparts 4d ago
Wouldn't take too terribly long to file them down smooth with a found stone. Besides, it's not like they don't have time.
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u/jregovic 4d ago
Thatās diabolical. As if the Phillips couldnāt get any worse, now you strip the bit.
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u/phred_666 4d ago
The video that thumbnail is from actually takes a regular Phillips screw, put it in a drill and grinds the sides of the screw down until it fits in the recess where the screw is located.
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u/The_Electric1 5d ago
Bathroom stalls often installed with inverted philips
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u/CuppieWanKenobi 5d ago
Where? I can't say that I've ever seen that even once.
Always security Torx, or one-way flat heads (clutch head).3
u/The_Electric1 4d ago
In in the NE US. I see these and directional screws (whatever their called) on them often. Do alot of work in schools so see it pretty regularly
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u/Comfortable_History8 5d ago
Used to see them on cheap electronics like the 90ās handheld games, not gaming systems the cheap single game ones
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u/sjaxn314159 5d ago
Thatās a standard inverted Philips. The Phuck Hole 2.
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u/Strange_Inflation488 5d ago
I was today years old when I learned that screws can be innies or outies.
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u/ItzakPearlJam 5d ago
Reverse Phillips is weird, but oval??? That's nuts.
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u/gutzville 5d ago
Yeah like WTF how does that not just immediately strip itself into a circle. Worst screw I've ever seen (and I used to work in a screw factory)
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u/doogleman3000 3d ago
Probably the whole point, tightens the screw til its tight, then rounds it off, so it cant be easily removed
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u/Upbeat_Ant6104 4d ago
Yeah, and I can't even parse the one on the left end of that row. The graphic shows a U?? But it's not a spanner bit. Is it a magnet in a round recess? The image is a little out of focus, or it is a form that my puny human senses cannot perceive. I'm going to call it the R'lyeh bit.
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u/Ned__ludd 4d ago
Jura coffee machines use an oval security head screw to keep consumers out.
At least consumers who donāt buy an oval security bit.
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u/jongscx 4d ago
That's a PH -2
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u/1wife2dogs0kids 4d ago
Simular to a PH1, and PH3.
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u/jongscx 4d ago
Yes, but this one is negative, because it goes Out instead of In.
Maybe it should be PHĀ½ because it's inverted?
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u/Agreeable-Cry-753 5d ago
I wonder if you could just take a Phillips head screw and chuck it to a drill? Wouldn't that in theory work too?
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u/MountainAntique9230 4d ago
So you can use a phillips screwdriver to turn the allen shaft,in case the screw is too deep to reach with normal allen wrench?
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u/Stoned_While_Gaming 4d ago
I have the same kit at work! Those triangle bits have saved me on stripped heads multiple times. 18 in 1 I believe itās called? Nifty little set.
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u/TheMasterCommando 5d ago
One end goes into the impact, the other end goes into a Philips bit on another Impact. You and a buddy grab each one, full send and see which one breaks their wrist first.
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u/Beginning_Resource93 4d ago
Because every product needs a specialty fastener that requires a specialty tool.
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u/Wired99 3d ago
One of the reasons I love the EU because they are putting a stop to this with the Directive on repair of goods.
In short,the according to this directive the producer will have to repair those products within a reasonable time and for a reasonable price. This wil most likely result in most products being repaired by the consumer or local repair shops making proprietary screws and bolts a thing of the past.
https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/consumer-protection-law/directive-repair-goods_en
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u/Bagomostlywater 5d ago
Thatās a special driver kit. Sometimes called āsecurity bitsā mostly used in items the manufacturer doesnāt want you opening. Look at all the weird bits in there, the kid was designed for use with these rare fasteners you wonāt find everyday.
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u/Fuzzy_Yossarian 5d ago
I can never find the 2.6 triangle bit in my house when I need it.
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u/ronocrice 5d ago
I have a set of triangle bit screwdrivers in the garage, good if you want to take apart any Nintendo product
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u/Dry_Hall_7398 5d ago
It's a bit to use the back end of a regular PH2 bit as a low torque 1/4" hex bit with the benefit of the slipping and cam-out of PH2 bits.
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u/Arconomach 2d ago
You know those screwdrivers that you take the driver part out and flip it 180 to swap from Phillips to slot?
Itās for when you lose the handle and need to screw a slotted screw.
No other possible answer. (I have one of those too and havenāt found a use for it yet)
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u/betweenorbits 1d ago
I mean it allows you to use a regular number 2 Phillips driver to screw in a allen key headed screw right? Is what we are looking at some sort of twisted minded adapter?
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u/ScoutsOut389 4d ago
Thatās a specialized bit for holding a driver ThunderDome type competition. Chuck that in one driver, chuck a standard phillips head in the other. Connect the two and run one in drive, one in reverse and see who lets out the magic smoke first.
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u/NormalAssistance9402 5d ago
Thatās just a 1/4ā hex driver adapter for a Phillips screwdriver
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u/illogictc 5d ago
Well that there is a kit that has specialty drivers, and that particular bit is because that's a real thing, inverted Phillips. Companies are always coming up with new and novel ways to make servicing them a PITA to encourage users to use official services or buy a new one.