We have been having issues striping the torx set screw on the low profile HS shaft collers. Has anyone else had this issue? At first I thought some of my teammates where just being bad and screwing things down, but after experiencing it strip myself I want to go ask if anyone else has the same situation.
Are the screws aluminum or somthing silly like that? Its strange to have an issue with these but the torx set screws which have a similar size.
To remove them I had to use a bolt cutters, which was easy because they are aluminum, but only if they have clearance to cut them. As you can see one of these might not have had clearance to get the cutters in.
I had some bad experiences with them last season, the set screw is super weak, whatever it’s made off. The low profile is nice, but they actually suck as shaft collars, do not use.
this screwdriver is super high quality, and if you always make sure that you meet some requirements, then you should not strip a HS low profile collar.
make sure the screwdriver is parallel with the set screw. this reduces stripping.
don’t tighten the screw all the way. just screw it enough so the collar stops sliding around. any more and it will likely break.
go extremely slowly. try to pump them like a normal screw and it will strip if the screwdriver bit slips.
they are super inconvenient to strip, but i really like the low profile that they have. we use about 6 on our robot right now, and none of them have had any problems (we followed the steps listed above).
not like anyone is going to ask if you are replacing the screw
