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walking mirage
@wolf.observer

useful fact: JIS screwdrivers work in Philips screws just fine. Philips screwdrivers will destroy a JIS screw in short order. this leads to lots of stripped screws on old ham radios

Neil T / FunkyUK@funkyuk.bsky.social

If you’re working on Japanese things, (cameras and stuff) they often use JIS screws, not Philips. 👍🏼

weirdo95.bsky.social
@weirdo95.bsky.social

The JIS system is the same as Phillips except for the shorter nose. The long nose was deliberate to allow cam-out for automated or poorly trained assemblers to avoid damaging the thing being assembled. But in Japan they will assume that the person assembling knows exactly what they are doing.