kyoung@auspex.auspex.com (Ken Young) (11/15/89)
The six-pointed star shaped screwdriver is called a "TORX". If the screw has a spike in the middle of the TORX socket, that requires a "tamper resistant TORX" screwdriver (harder to find, but the SNAP-ON tool man can get one for you). The eight-pointed star screwdriver is called a "POZIDRIVE". You may be able to turn it with a phillips if you are desperate, but I have never tried it. Most POZIDRIVE stuff says it is not interchangable with a phillips, but they also say not to use it as a chizel, pry-bar, or punch :-) Ken Young uunet!auspex!kyoung
leres@ace.ee.lbl.gov (Craig Leres) (11/16/89)
Key Young writes: > If the screw has a spike in the middle of the TORX socket, that requires > a "tamper resistant TORX" screwdriver (harder to find, but the SNAP-ON > tool man can get one for you). I needed one of these (it became... uh, necessary to get into the telco box at home) so I bought a regular torx driver at Sears and modified it. First I un-heat treated it, then center drilled it on a lathe, and finally re-heat treated it. Craig P.S. I really think the psychedelic rainbow colors the heat treating left on my unit are a plus.