flat-head screw(driver)s

[A. Vine]

Oh all right, I call them flat-head and phillips screwdrivers, and flat-head
screws (what the English might call counter-sink screws).  Flat-head screws
should be counter-sunk so that they wind up flush with the flat surface.  I
guess the others are round-heads?  I'm not sure.

The thing is, a flat-head screw might require a phillips screwdriver, so one has
nothing to do with the other.

Andrea

Mark_Mandel at DRAGONSYS.COM wrote:
>
> And others here also speak of "flat-head screwdrivers".
>
> I'm not a hardware geek by any means, but from shopping in hardware stores for
> screws to match the ones I've got for a particular job at home, I've learned
> that "flat-head screws" are distinguished from, I think, "oval-head screws" by
> the profile of the top, and are so shown on the box. The criterion is, Is the
> top literally flat (apart from the cut for the screwdriver head) or does it
> bulge into a curved surface? This is a separate dimension from the cut*, which
> is what this thread has been about up to now: Phillips vs. straight.
>
> * for lack of a more precise word
>
> So the term may be used differently by
>  - the manufacturers (and maybe those who deal professionally with the hardware,
> such as carpenters and cabinetmakers) and
>  - some of the rest of us.
>
> -- Mark