https://hardware.hacks.guide/w/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=Karmashiota 2026-05-14T15:00:38Z User contributions MediaWiki 1.43.8 https://hardware.hacks.guide/w/index.php?title=Identifying_screw_head_and_type&diff=7108 2025-06-27T17:46:49Z

<p>Karmashiota: added images and fixed formatting, replaced &quot;driver&quot; with &quot;head&quot; to avoid confusion</p> <hr /> <div>It can be very complicated to find the type, name or size of a screw's drive (screw head will be used to reduce confusion), even for people with years of experience. This is mostly due to the amount of poor information on the subject of and misnomers for head types. This will focus on sizes of #0 and under as those are the most likely ones to cause issues, are more common in modern consoles and also because those are the sizes that we have researched the most and are 100% confident on. Using the right one, it is pretty hard to strip your screws. <br /> <br /> === '''Sizes''' ===<br /> Sizes are often confused but you can identify the size size of the screwdriver needed for the head pretty easily. #0-#000 head sizes go like this<br /> <br /> * #0 = 2.0mm<br /> * #00 = 1.5mm<br /> * #000 = 1.0mm<br /> <br /> === '''Types : Commonly confused''' ===<br /> Some kinds are very often confused, either by their similarity or one having a name with a better ring to it. These are the main ones.<br /> <br /> ==== JIS &amp; Phillips/PH/ISO8764 ====<br /> They are both very similar, so much that it seems to have started the current [[Ifixit Situation|Ifixit situation]].<br /> <br /> JIS has sharper angles with a less rounded center. There is more to it, but that is the gist of it.<br /> <br /> PH has softer angles and a thicker center. It is almost the same though.<br /> <br /> Their slight difference is enough to be very important. A PH head has to be a size under to fit in a (undamaged) JIS screw. A JIS head [[w:Cam_out|cams out]] PH screws. [[File:PHvsJIS.png|thumb|Difference between Phillips and JIS bits|center]]<br /> <br /> ====Tri-point and Tri-wing ====<br /> This one is a lot more obvious, Tri-point has 3 straight lines pointing at the center while Tri-wing points to the side of the center point. <br /> <br /> Both heads need to be undersized to fit in each others head. You are almost certain of stripping them if you do.&lt;gallery mode=&quot;nolines&quot;&gt;<br /> File:Screw Head - Tri-point.svg|Tri-point head<br /> File:Screw Head - Tri-Wing.svg|Tri-wing head<br /> &lt;/gallery&gt;<br /> <br /> <br /> other more obvious screws to be added</div>

Karmashiota https://hardware.hacks.guide/w/index.php?title=File:PHvsJIS.png&diff=7107 2025-06-27T17:11:25Z

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<p>Karmashiota: logo for the knowledge base on the main page</p> <hr /> <div>== Summary ==<br /> logo for the knowledge base on the main page</div>

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