>Being visually impaired I HATE slotted screws. Your position makes sense given your eyesight situation. However, there are some advantages to slotted head screws that I've learned over the last nine years of working on our 1973 Grand Banks. The slots are easy to clean decades of layers of paint and varnish out of. A Philips head screw can be a real pain in this respect. Being able to clean the slot out completely makes it that much easier to remove the screw without the driver slipping or damaging the slot(s). Also, I've found that older slotted head stainless screws like American Marine used to screw down our teak decking have slightly wider heads than the same number size screw sold today. Which means that the head of the original screws get a slightly better purchase on the wood than new screws of the same size. So when resetting decks screws and plugs, I always clean and re-use the original, slotted head screw. One trick I read about recently when setting screws, slotted or particularly Philips, in holes that will be filled with plugs and glue, is to stick one of those adhesive paper "dots" on top of the screw head when it's seated home. Then glue in the plug. The "dot" keeps the glue from getting down into and filling the slots in the screw head. ______________________________ C. Marin Faure GB36-403 "La Perouse" Bellingham, Washington