On any given day in the Family Handyman workshop, you'll find boxes and boxes of long, skinny screws with sharp threads that ...

Drive: The shape of the mechanism used to install and remove screws. Some of the most common drive shapes are cross-head, square, star, slotted and hex socket. Head: The top of the screw ...

While there are other methods that can work, they can either harm your tools or strip the hex screw head. For instance, Torx bits, which are shaped like stars, can fit inside a hexagonal fastener ...