When is a Philips screw not....

[norlander]

But the metal is always made of goat cheese on the OEM tool kits

Surely not knocking the superiour Japanese products ????? -the OEM bits work fine on the crap screw heads because they are made of the same crap.

 

[roofman]

Surely not knocking the superiour Japanese products ????? -the OEM bits work fine on the crap screw heads because they are made of the same crap.

 

[Wedg1e]

the jap screws and bolts on my mitsi are made of the same cheese

Pick any Jap bike from the 80s; the engines were always screwed together with M6 Philips/JIS-headed screws regardless of length. So the 300mm long goat-cheese screw that went through several inches of aluminium that had corroded was now stuck in harder than a Norfolk lad in his cousin and the usual solution was to welly it with a No.4 tip in an impact driver.
Bang! ...and the head was gone

 

[anjum]

When it's solidly rusted in an old Jag.
Even if not rusted in, nothing fits. They must have had specially shaped screwdrivers.