{"id":5299,"date":"2020-06-09T02:34:26","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T06:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=5299"},"modified":"2020-06-09T02:34:26","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T06:34:26","slug":"comment-on-the-robertson-screwdriver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=5299","title":{"rendered":"Comment on the Robertson screwdriver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Commented to the video below:<\/p>\n<p>Love your videos! New subscriber, FWIW.<\/p>\n<p>I do have one objection; @14:20 you say you can&#8217;t use a flat-head screwdriver to drive a Robertson screw. As a Canadian AND long-time advocate of the Robertson form, you certainly can; just need to find the right size flat screwdriver to fit the diagonal. And all the benefits of the Robertson still apply: one-handed operation, higher torque, resistance to cam-out, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Robertson-adjacent is the story I heard about why McDonalds uses (useta?) a triangular screw for their toys. Like a Robertson with 1 less corner. My colleague said McDonalds avoided the license fee price built into the other forms. My argument is there&#8217;s no way McD&#8217;s wouldn&#8217;t use a cheap knock-off Phillips in the Chinese\/etc. factories. We never resolved it, and we&#8217;ve lost touch. Sigh&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Colleague was a fairly open racist, so it just seemed too &#8220;ching-chong-bing-bong&#8221; cringey to be right.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Robertson, Phillips, and the History of the Screwdriver\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R-mDqKtivuI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commented to the video below: Love your videos! New subscriber, FWIW. I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[189,16],"class_list":["post-5299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-my-comment","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}