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Re:Are women really better than men at furniture assembly (a... by bewaretheirs on Thursday December 03, 2015 @01:04PM (#10671281)
One thing that significantly improved my IKEA-assembly skills:

For its cross-head screws, IKEA generally uses Pozidriv rather than Phillips screws. They're subtly different - but if you use a Phillips driver on a Pozidriv screw (or vice versa) you tend to wreck the screw head. Use the IKEA-sold screwdriver (or get a better Pozidriv set).

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Re:Are women really better than men at furniture assembly (a... by mjevans on Thursday December 03, 2015 @01:38PM (#10671593)
Why. Why does this even exist? It's bad enough that we aren't using hex-head but to have two different ones that look so similar an average person can't tell them apart without instructions, AND which not only fit in each other's sockets but wreck them?
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Re:Are women really better than men at furniture assembly (a... by basaah on Thursday December 03, 2015 @01:24PM (#10671478)
That is golden advice! Also, be careful with power screwdrivers, they offer speed and the illusion of power, but much less control and feeling, increasing the chance of wrecking the screw head and/or screwing too tight or not tight enough.
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