You’ll rarely see them in stores, but some manufacturers use square screws that aren’t robertson, and they’re much worse, even than philips. Corrosion can mess up the best screw so maybe not your case, but I’ve run into this and it sucks.
Because I swear I had the closest sized tip for that screw but it still slipped and i ended up “eating” the whole … Receptacle? I can’t bother to properly translate or search for a better word.
But thanks for the input! That would kind of make sens that a company who used security screws for a electric kettle base would also use the horrible square shaped screw too for the rest.
You’ll rarely see them in stores, but some manufacturers use square screws that aren’t robertson, and they’re much worse, even than philips. Corrosion can mess up the best screw so maybe not your case, but I’ve run into this and it sucks.
Oh that would probably explain it!
Because I swear I had the closest sized tip for that screw but it still slipped and i ended up “eating” the whole … Receptacle? I can’t bother to properly translate or search for a better word.
But thanks for the input! That would kind of make sens that a company who used security screws for a electric kettle base would also use the horrible square shaped screw too for the rest.