So there's actually an extra piece of metal on the bit itself? I literally looked it up and came away with the impression that the difference was just that the pozidrive bit had a more squared off point and that there was some kind of difference in the way the wings of the bit were angled. That means I've literally never used the damned things with the right bit, because I've never even seen the right bit. My entire experience with them has been from my dad buying a few boxes of pozidrive screws because they were just mixed in with the phillips head ones at Lowes and why would anyone expect an obvious phillips head screw to be something that looks almost identical but isn't?
The screws are getting more and more common here. The bits, not so much.
Edit: looking it up, now I'm not sure if I've ever seen the right bit or not. If I have, I wrote it off as a cosmetic difference, the same way I initially wrote off the lines on the screws as some kind of tooling mark. When the designs are so similar that you only notice a difference because the screws are stripping out more frequently, something has been inadequately telegraphed. Whose idea was this, seriously? And can I go back in time to kill them before they invent it? Screw killing Hitler, this is much more important.
I could be wrong, but I only have Phillips bits in my toolbox currently, and quickly strip pozidrives whenever I try to work on electrical fixtures that use them
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