Not OT - For Our Canadian Friends - History of Robertson and Philllips Screws

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Not OT - For Our Canadian Friends - History of Robertson and Philllips Screws

Post by CudaMan » Mon Nov 18, 2019 9:24 am

New today on "The History Guy" channel on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-mDqKtivuI
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Re: Not OT - For Our Canadian Friends - History of Robertson and Philllips Screws

Post by Playswithbrass » Tue Nov 19, 2019 9:12 pm

Mark, what they didn't tell was they were originally invented to screw our igloos together . Since we like the screw heads to all be aligned so they look proper on your igloo the slot was just not doing it. You had to at the very most turn the slot a half turn to align the heads using the Robertson the most you needed was a quarter of a turn.LOL

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Re: Not OT - For Our Canadian Friends - History of Robertson and Philllips Screws

Post by John E. Guitar » Thu Nov 21, 2019 5:12 am

That was a great video except for the bow tie.

My 1924 Tudor has Robertson screws. They are much easier to use than just about anything else.

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Re: Not OT - For Our Canadian Friends - History of Robertson and Philllips Screws

Post by Doug Keppler » Sat Nov 23, 2019 7:45 pm

That was a screwy video :D . I received a set of screw drivers from relatives in Canada, that sure explains all the square drive screwdrivers in the set.
I kinda like those Robertson square drives, they do work nice.
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Re: Not OT - For Our Canadian Friends - History of Robertson and Philllips Screws

Post by Altair » Mon Nov 25, 2019 2:32 pm

Just an additional point that wasn't mentioned, Robertson also invented the tracer bullets, they couldn't see where the bullets were going at night so he invented the idea to apply a small amount of phosphorous on every 8th bullet.

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Re: Not OT - For Our Canadian Friends - History of Robertson and Philllips Screws

Post by Fordwright » Sun May 31, 2020 11:17 am

It's a sad loss to the world that P.L. Robertson felt offended by Henry Ford's heavy-handed approach to the manufacture of square-drive screws for the US market. He went home upset and endeavored not to allow his Robertson screws to be made or cheaply licensed in the US. That left the field open for the Phillips screw head, which many people feel is inferior to the Robertson screw head.


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Re: Not OT - For Our Canadian Friends - History of Robertson and Philllips Screws

Post by Wayfarer » Sun May 31, 2020 12:18 pm

cool history lesson related to my Canadian '23 center door
thanks !

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