Basic blender went bad (motor ran but spindle wasn’t rotating). I wanted to disassemble to see if it could be repaired. Three of the four screws were Phillips head. I had to cut the casing open in order to discover why I couldn’t unscrew the fourth. It was a slotted spanner.
That’s a flathead with a bead welded in the middle. Source a local dremel, some earplugs and eye pro, and do some quick converting.
Oh wait I think I understand the image. You had to saw the plastic apart to expose the screw. Yeah fuck those dudes. I guess another option would’ve been to get a cheap screw driver and modify it with a dremel? Either way, fuck Kenmore.
That’s a standard spanner-head screw. No welding required. The bits and drivers are not so hard to come by, or make.
Wait… Oh.
They didn’t have to do anything destructive to “expose” the screw. They were too lazy to find a better way to see the bottom of the hole it was in.