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The #8 wood screw with a square drive surprised me, thanks to an old catalog
I flipped through a 1967 Sears catalog my uncle left in the barn, and it showed the Robertson square drive was already standard on their cabinet hardware. I always thought Phillips dominated everything until the 80s, but this changed how I see screw head history. Anyone else dig through old trade catalogs for the fun facts?
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aaronfox1mo ago
Man, I feel you on this one. I had the same shock when I found a bunch of old hardware boxes at a flea market and saw square drive screws sitting right next to Phillips ones from the 50s. My whole life I figured Phillips was king until the square drive came along way later, but nope, Robertson was around since like 1908 up in Canada. Those old catalogs and trade books don't lie, and it bugs me that so many of us got taught a cleaned up version of tool history. Makes you wonder what else we got wrong just because nobody kept the paperwork around.
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