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Allen or Phillips
« on: August 10, 2020, 10:20:36 PM »
Which do you prefer?

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Re: Allen or Phillips
« Reply #1 on: August 10, 2020, 10:25:40 PM »
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Re: Allen or Phillips
« Reply #2 on: August 10, 2020, 10:30:30 PM »
just switched to bronze allen last week and setting them up is a lot quicker than phillips. i do have to walk with the allen key in my wallet just in case
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Re: Allen or Phillips
« Reply #3 on: August 10, 2020, 11:06:15 PM »
7/8 Allen.
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Re: Allen or Phillips
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Re: Allen or Phillips
« Reply #5 on: August 11, 2020, 01:51:59 AM »
I used Phillips when I was a kid, always stripped dem shits. Never happened again with Allen heads. Just lock it in and spin that fucker.
Also, the argument that you never have a Allen key around is dumb too. They come in every pack of bolts and will fit anywhere cause they are so tiny, I always have it in my wallet. Good luck carrying a Phillips key around that is small enough and doesn't ruin your bolts.

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Re: Allen or Phillips
« Reply #6 on: August 11, 2020, 02:20:32 AM »
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Re: Allen or Phillips
« Reply #7 on: August 11, 2020, 02:47:47 AM »
I used Phillips when I was a kid, always stripped dem shits. Never happened again with Allen heads. Just lock it in and spin that fucker.
Also, the argument that you never have a Allen key around is dumb too. They come in every pack of bolts and will fit anywhere cause they are so tiny, I always have it in my wallet. Good luck carrying a Phillips key around that is small enough and doesn't ruin your bolts wallet.
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Re: Allen or Phillips
« Reply #8 on: August 11, 2020, 03:12:51 AM »
It's always Phillips for me. Number 1: turning that Allen key b painful AF. Number 2: Because of the aesthetic: looks cleaner than Allen (to me) and the universality of people carrying Phillips tools over Allen with them.
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Re: Allen or Phillips
« Reply #9 on: August 11, 2020, 04:46:41 AM »
If you set up boards relatively often allen is the only way. Also looks better in my opinion.

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Re: Allen or Phillips
« Reply #10 on: August 11, 2020, 05:04:28 AM »
7/8 Allen Shorty's

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Re: Allen or Phillips
« Reply #11 on: August 11, 2020, 05:18:12 AM »
Phillips for life. If you tighten your bolts from the bottom you wont have to worry about twisting your griptape and you won't strip your heads either. I've had a little phillips screwdriver on my key chain for years

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Re: Allen or Phillips
« Reply #12 on: August 11, 2020, 05:34:02 AM »
I’m a simple dude. I just want Phillips hardware.
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Re: Allen or Phillips
« Reply #13 on: August 11, 2020, 05:39:08 AM »
If you don’t skate 1“ shorty’s Allen hardware, I honestly don’t know what the fuck is wrong with you...

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Re: Allen or Phillips
« Reply #14 on: August 11, 2020, 05:42:21 AM »
i'm european and i forgot which is which so i prefer the blocky ones not the crossy ones

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Re: Allen or Phillips
« Reply #17 on: August 11, 2020, 06:21:17 AM »
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Re: Allen or Phillips
« Reply #18 on: August 11, 2020, 06:25:52 AM »
If you don’t skate 1“ shorty’s Allen hardware, I honestly don’t know what the fuck is wrong with you...
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Re: Allen or Phillips
« Reply #19 on: August 11, 2020, 06:34:34 AM »
Allen if you're a cool guy

Philips if you hell ride

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Re: Allen or Phillips
« Reply #20 on: August 11, 2020, 06:36:47 AM »
i'm european and i forgot which is which so i prefer the blocky ones not the crossy ones

Blocky for life, fuck them dumbass crossy folks.

Seriously though I stumbled across 100ct boxes of 1" Allen for 48 cents each at grainger. Bought the last 5 of them in stock and haven't looked back since. They even have a wider head than shortys so they don't sink down into the holes.

Edit - looks like they're still available!


https://www.grainger.com/mobile/product/4XY14?cm_mmc=EMT-_-10339122

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Re: Allen or Phillips
« Reply #21 on: August 11, 2020, 06:59:25 AM »
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i'm european and i forgot which is which so i prefer the blocky ones not the crossy ones
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Blocky for life, fuck them dumbass crossy folks.

Seriously though I stumbled across 100ct boxes of 1" Allen for 48 cents each at grainger. Bought the last 5 of them in stock and haven't looked back since. They even have a wider head than shortys so they don't sink down into the holes.

Edit - looks like they're still available!


https://www.grainger.com/mobile/product/4XY14?cm_mmc=EMT-_-10339122

those have threading all the way up to the head, you want it to be smooth so it doesn't wear the holes of your deck down
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Re: Allen or Phillips
« Reply #22 on: August 11, 2020, 07:11:36 AM »
Indy hardware has a much larger... head. They gotta throw that cross on the top.

 Shorty’s nice and slim, works better to me.


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Re: Allen or Phillips
« Reply #23 on: August 11, 2020, 07:32:10 AM »
Used to skate Phillips just cuz my theory was that if you were out skating street and needed to take your hardware off for whatever reason and you didn’t have a tool it’d be much easier finding a Phillips screwdriver out in the wild than it would be to find a Allen key, but in recent years I’ve been skating Allen; they really do strip less; as a matter of fact in the few years I have been skating Allen hardware I haven’t stripped one bolt up until just last week.

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Re: Allen or Phillips
« Reply #24 on: August 11, 2020, 07:34:48 AM »
Also skated the Indy universal hardware for a bit too where it was Phillips and Allen combined; thought that was a pretty good idea even though they looked weird.

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Re: Allen or Phillips
« Reply #25 on: August 11, 2020, 07:48:26 AM »

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Re: Allen or Phillips
« Reply #26 on: August 11, 2020, 08:00:52 AM »
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« Reply #27 on: August 11, 2020, 08:20:49 AM »
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7/8 Allen Shorty's
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The best. I was running the 1" for a while until I found a bottle with a few sets of barely used 7/8" in my box of skate stuff.

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Re: Allen or Phillips
« Reply #28 on: August 11, 2020, 08:35:28 AM »
Allen.  If I look down and see philips bolts it makes me want to puke.

In fact, I can’t imagine a worse thing in the universe than 8 ugly little philips heads scowling up at me.
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Re: Allen or Phillips
« Reply #29 on: August 11, 2020, 08:45:37 AM »
I know it sounds ocd but when I ran Phillips head I liked the symmetrical + up and down no X's.

 Allen  just looks cooler. & yes I was that idiot who would switch up decks to trucks from truck madness this stripping the nuts on the bottom that's why it's also important to not constantly switch wheel's or bearings as you'll wear out axle bolts.
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