FREEDOM TO UNSCREW
Photograph by Amy Nightingale
No exotic screw head is a match for someone wielding some Silly Putty and a Dremel tool.
Make tamperproof driver bits by molding the screw heads.
When a friend asked for my help removing some nonstandard screws from his doorframe without damaging them, I expected a little resistance. Many manufacturers use so-called tamperproof or security screw heads to prevent casual would-be hardware hackers; tamperproof Torx, spanner bits, and Tri-Wing being some of the more popular types. This security-by-obscurity approach can usually be foiled with a security bit set available in ...
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