What screw is this?

[EndlessSky]

Maybe try a small dab of liquid nitrogen to freeze it and then smash it with a hammer?

 

[PhillyDee]

Maybe try a small dab of liquid nitrogen to freeze it and then smash it with a hammer?

Much more likely to smash the plastic its bolted into.

Probably best to use a hex key in this case!

 

[bledd]

Allen key

 

[EndlessSky]

Much more likely to smash the plastic its bolted into.

Probably best to use a hex key in this case!

But you'd have successfully extracted the Screw, without the worry of which socket to use!

 

[powelly]

seriously if you don't know an Allen key goes in that you have a problem

 

[Deleted member 77746]

Use an allen key on that - It's not a torx head

 

[sigma]

Yes, that would appear to be a Torx, although it seems someone has attempted to have a go at it with something other than a Torx screwdriver already...

 

[Deleted member 77746]

Yes, that would appear to be a Torx, although it seems someone has attempted to have a go at it with something other than a Torx screwdriver already...

Fail.

 

[Andr3w]

just looks like a standard allen key head, not torx.

Yup

 

[~>Dg<~]

lol the human race is doomed

 

[bash247]

rasta clot screw face ting?

^ Efour2 is spot on

Looks like a allen/hex head to me

 

[powelly]

seriously has anyone ever owned a bike?

 

[Wicksta]

seriously has anyone ever owned a bike?

I'd say most people in this thread apart from Al Vallario.

 

[peige]

Allen.. deff, but you can prob force a torx driver into it

 

[powelly]

Allen.. deff, but you can prob force a torx driver into it

thats what she said

 

[Chaos]

Handy pdf -

http://www.boltdepot.com/fastener-information/Printable-Tools/Type-Chart.pdf

 

[Eddie]

Handy pdf -

http://www.boltdepot.com/fastener-information/Printable-Tools/Type-Chart.pdf

It's probably a bit sad but that chart is brilliant!

 

[Tomsk]

It's probably a bit sad but that chart is brilliant!

It appears to American.

What it says is a 'set screws', I call 'grub screws'
A set screw toi me, is a 'bolt' that is threaded right up to the head.
A bolt is only partially threaded.
Phillips and Pozidriv screwheads are different and not 100% compatible.
It doesn't list Torx.
It doesn't list spline drive nuts and bolts.

 

[G-MAN2004]

How on earth can you possibly not know what it is?

:/

 

[Eddie]

It appears to American.

What it says is a 'set screws', I call 'grub screws'
A set screw toi me, is a 'bolt' that is threaded right up to the head.
A bolt is only partially threaded.
Phillips and Pozidriv screwheads are different and not 100% compatible.
It doesn't list Torx.
It doesn't list spline drive nuts and bolts.

Maybe not so good then - I'll hunt for a good (i.e. proper ) UK one.

Those torx ones, the star shaped ones, I always called them 'star drive' but I think I might have maybe possibly made that name up myself.