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Cake day: June 6th, 2023

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  • small screws in general are just easy to strip

    Hexes are very sturdy. I ride mountain bikes and for some reason brake rotors are secured with Torx while all other screws are hexes. Torx on rotors are usually tightened to 4-6Nm and they are single use 99% of the time. At the same time there are plenty of hexes of the same size which are tightened to 8-10Nm and there are zero issues.

    Torx are fucking useless. And don’t get me started on tiny Torxes in laptops…