Maybe user error, but hex comes in both us and metric and the difference is often just tight enough to strip it or loose enough you can pound it in with a hammer. Torx only comes in 1 scale.
What combination of words in my comment could have possibly led you to the massive leap of an assumption that i dont understand why companies do this?
Go on, explain.
Hooray, more tools to buy.
Sure wish we could just have a single standard shape and size.
How about standard hex in metric and be done with it?
Relevant xkcd
That’s why I bought a metric tap and die, anywhere I run into stupidity I can just re-thread and put a better bolt in.
My hero 🥹
Hex is kinda ass, either square or star/torx
Stripping is almost always user error and i personally don’t like torx. But I’m down for any of them if made a singular a standard!
Maybe user error, but hex comes in both us and metric and the difference is often just tight enough to strip it or loose enough you can pound it in with a hammer. Torx only comes in 1 scale.
What do you personally take issue with?
That’s true.
I just dont like the feel of using them and I’ve also broken multiple of the small torx bits.
But realistically i don’t care what standard is chosen as long as there was one.
I’ve broken some cheap bits. Anything that costs more than “suspect” has impressed me.
Being a patented design, it will be much harder to buy the tool for it. You’d need to buy it from BMW themselves.
Nahhhh. They’ll be all over Aliexpress faster than i could design and print my own.
But i don’t plan to be in the position of needing one anyway. lol
I…
Like.
You don’t understand why? Really?
What combination of words in my comment could have possibly led you to the massive leap of an assumption that i dont understand why companies do this?
Go on, explain.
Totally misread your comment, my bad.
Thought it said “I don’t know why…”
Leaving the comment for prosperity. Carry on.
It happens, no worries!