TORX PLUS^® Drive System

Consistently outperforms every other drive system.

Overview

• Hex drive systems’ 60° drive angle is inefficient in transferring torque and the Hex point contact can cause stress risers to develop which damage driver bits and fastener recesses.
• Camout, all too common in cruciform drive systems forces the tool out of the recess and can prevent a fastener from being fully seated. This combined with tool and recess wear can cause debris in an application. Excessive end load, which is required to prevent camout, can reduce bit life and cause worker fatigue or injury.

Features

• Straight sidewalls & reduced recess fall away
• Elliptically-based geometry and lobe engagement
• 0° drive angle
• Six lobes with large cross-sectional areas
• Inch and metric in one drive tool

Benefits

• Increase tool engagement
• Virtually eliminates camout
• Ensures proper torque transfer
• Greatly reduces end load requirements
• Can reduce worker fatigue and muscular stress during manual assembly
• Broadens contact surface to maximize engagement of driver and recess
• Eliminates damaging point-to-point contact
• Optimizes torque transmission
• Virtually eliminates radial stresses to increase tool bit life
• Enables use of recesses with thinner walls
• Enables faster tool engagement
• Maximizes torque transfer
• Increases torsional strength
• Same-sized drive tool seats both inch- and metric-sized fasteners
• Allows adding or converting to metrics without a tooling change
• Reduces the number of tools required by field service personnel