• NotSoCoolWhip@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You can get more torque on a torx than an Allen. They’re basically the same shape, but torx has longer contacts on the star points where the hex corners would be.

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      1 year ago

      Also, M1.5 hex is getting a little too close to a circle, and you can forget about going much smaller. M1.5 torx is still usable.

        • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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          1 year ago

          Torx is a lot less likely to strip out the tool or the fastener than Allen, especially at smaller sizes. Torx comes in a smaller variety of sizes than Allen does, so it’s more difficult to choose a slightly wrong size. Especially with Allen being offered in both metric and moon landing fractionals, there’s like, M0.8, and 14/93", one of which fits slightly loosely in the other and will sorta work, until you turn real hard on a stubborn bolt and round out the screw and/or driver.

          In other words, it is my experience that you’ll have a large pile of allens that you can’t realistically tell apart, and a set of like 8 Torx tips from which you only use like three.

    • klangcola@reddthat.com
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      1 year ago

      I see. It makes sense when you say it.

      Yet I only encounter torx on low-medium torque stuff. Applicances, not cars.