Cydrome Leader wrote:
Wes wrote:
Earlier this week I had to get a cam follower out of a machine. The
follower was sticking at times causing the machine that rotates a
part and inserts a stud to fail on the last hole.

The sticking and failing on the last hole was a matter of geometry
and physics. Sure drove me nuts for a while. Can't go into since
it is a manufacturing process.

Anyway, I needed to get this McGee cam follower out. It had a
screwdriver slot but I couldn't unscrew it. So I ground a
screwdriver to fit the slot, used a arbor press and a fellow tech to
force the screw driver into the slot while I used a crecent wrench
on the square shaft of the screw driver (sears craftsman) to break
it loose. I learned that threadlocker was involved in this. Likely
the blue stuff.

It's interesting you meantion the use of the square shafted craftsman
screwdriver with a wrench. That's pretty common move over here.

Does anybody know of any other companies that even sell square shafted
screwdrivers? For as much slack as sears is getting for generally
lower grade tools, those and pretty handy as well as the really large
flat drivers that are really just prybars in real life.

I've seen screwdrivers that had a hex section right up by the handle . Got a
couple of Snap-on's like that .

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