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Whether it be electronics, automobiles or medical equipment, the manufacturers should not be able to horde “oem” parts, render your stuff useless if you repair it with aftermarket parts, or hide schematics of their products.

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What kind of screw is this? (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

EDIT: I believe I found the answer, it's something turned by this: https://ctatools.com/products/5065

Found some trash on the street that i'd like to take apart, but this screw is in my way.

It's like a hex bolt, but with 5 sides, and rounded (a bit like flower petals).

Here's another picture from the top:

I tried turning it with various tools (hard to get pliars in unfortunately), no success so far. The material is very soft, which doesn't help..

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (4 children)

That's a star bit screw head. Can find it as a torx star or 5-point star bit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

People often call variants with other numbers of points "torx" as well. Torx is technically a brand (a trademark) and in that sense, if we were being strict, wouldn't include basically any of the commin TN 6-point driver sets out there, e.g. Wiha and Wera sets. But everyone just says "5 point torx" and so on.

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