• Excrubulent@slrpnk.net
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    4 days ago

    I prefer to only use them when I can’t get alignment. They’re far more likely to round out the head in my experience, but they have their uses.

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      3 days ago

      Maybe I didn’t use them enough yet, but I bought some Wiha balled hex driver and I haven’t stripped a screw yet, and I use cheap screws.

      I also had to dismantle my 3d printer hot end with a lot of weirdly placed screws and it wasn’t even an issue.

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        3 days ago

        Fair enough, I’m talking about big H5 construction screws and impact drivers, so a different use case maybe. Also it turns out when ARRMA uses too much threadlock on their axle set screws you can strip them really easily, and I needed more expensive special hex drivers with tight tolerances to work with them.