Basic blender went bad (motor ran but spindle wasn’t rotating). I wanted to disassemble to see if it could be repaired. Three of the four screws were Phillips head. I had to cut the casing open in order to discover why I couldn’t unscrew the fourth. It was a slotted spanner.

  • downpunxx
    link
    fedilink
    671 month ago

    hahahahahaha, about three years ago now, I bought a hunting knife from Amazon that came with a sheath which had a belt clip that was held on by one of these fucking screws.

    at the time, i couldn’t figure for the life of me what it was or if there was a tool for this so I went to Home Depot, bought a .99 cent flathead our of their bargain tubs, took it to their tool rental department where they also will cut metal for you if you ask nicely. had them make a notch in the top of the flathead, brought it home and after some filing got it to get in there and loosen up this devil screw top.

    now i know it’s called a U or H type screwdriver. my way was cheaper, but nice to know the real solution now.

    • lettruthout
      link
      fedilink
      English
      381 month ago

      Wow, doing a MacGuyver with corporate assistance. I like it!

    • @jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org
      link
      fedilink
      71 month ago

      That belt clip is there to make the knife technically legal in some areas. A 3"+ blade can’t be concealed by putting it in your pocket, so the workaround is to have the clip showing on the outside of your pocket, making it visible. That’s why they use screws like that. At least that is my understanding - I could be wrong.

    • @uis@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      11 month ago

      a belt clip that was held on by one of these fucking screws.

      Wow. This needs to be shown to all “ThIs Is FoR yOuR sAfEtY” idiots.