Re:One man’s fight for the right to repair broken MacBooks
by samatman on Sunday May 23, 2021 @06:16PM
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I can in fact.
Really tiny Torx screws are easy to strip the head on. I've done it more than once, to my considerable regret.
Pentalobes are harder to strip, because a pentagon is less like a circle than a hexagon is.
Are they the Platonic ideal of a screw head for the exact size used in iPhones? No idea, I'm not a mechanical engineer. Just a klutz who has stripped a few tiny Torx screws with my big ol' meat hands.
Re:One man’s fight for the right to repair broken MacBooks
by josephcsible on Sunday May 23, 2021 @06:24PM
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Isn't Torx basically a hexagram rather than a hexagon? To me, pentalobe looks closer to circular than Torx does. Also, how much have you worked with tiny pentalobe screws compared to tiny Torx screws? Is it possible you've seen the latter strip more just because you've used them more?
Can you name a single advantage of pentalobe screws over pre-existing standard screw heads like Torx? If not, then Occam's razor is how I know.