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Default Why aren't all screws pozidrive?

On Dec 28, 9:21*am, The Other Mike
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On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:34:45 -0800 (PST), thirty-six

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On Dec 28, 1:51*am, "Rick Hughes"
wrote:


As to why we won;t go all Pozi ... simple, US uses choses not to use Pozi.


GKN have the rights to it.


...in the UK and possibly in some bits of the old empire.

Have a look who invented Posidriv and in what country, *the answer
surprises many. It wasn't GKN, nor in the UK.

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Bit on the topic here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screw_head
There's a few I've never seen.