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On Mar 21, 11:55*am, Andrew May wrote:

Imagine a slotted machine screw but with a 'slot' that is raised
rather than sunken.


Does it have a name?


None that are printable.

Drivers are easy enough to make (old hex bit, cut a slot), but they're
a very fragile head. Enough torque to put them in clean, not enough to
get them out once manked into place. Maybe they're deliberate?

I've had some out, but never a whole motorful as there was always one
that was too tight and the head stripped. I ended up dremelling a new
slot, then taking them out with a conventional screwdriver.