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Default Screwdrivers are all the same, right?


Maybe not:

http://www.instructables.com/id/S6HTQK1FOVXP1P6/

Now, if I were $DIETY, I'd ban them all in favor of Trox....but I
digress.

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David Lesher wrote:

Maybe not:

http://www.instructables.com/id/S6HTQK1FOVXP1P6/

Now, if I were $DIETY, I'd ban them all in favor of Trox....but I
digress.


I watched a guy that sells screwdrivers put one of his drivers in a JIS cross point screw
and then let go. Screwdriver just sat there horizonal.

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David Lesher wrote:

Maybe not:

http://www.instructables.com/id/S6HTQK1FOVXP1P6/

Now, if I were $DIETY, I'd ban them all in favor of Trox....but I
digress.


it's sad everybody is trying so hard to make phillips looks bits and fasters
aren't, each with no real advantage in the real world since you can'te tell them
apart anyways.

I still vote on the " spline" as the most obnoxious, expecially when it's already
stripped out by somebody who tried a hex or torx driver already.
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Cydrome Leader wrote:

I still vote on the " spline" as the most obnoxious, expecially when it's already
stripped out by somebody who tried a hex or torx driver already.


The article left out the clutch head.

http://shoptoolsshoptools.com/shopexd.asp?id=541

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Oh curses on you. Now I want to get a collection of all of them! And their
drivers.

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Maybe not:

http://www.instructables.com/id/S6HTQK1FOVXP1P6/

Now, if I were $DIETY, I'd ban them all in favor of Trox....but I
digress.

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Default Screwdrivers are all the same, right?

On Jan 4, 5:35*pm, David Lesher wrote:
Maybe not:

http://www.instructables.com/id/S6HTQK1FOVXP1P6/

Now, if I were $DIETY, I'd ban them all in favor of Trox....but I
digress.

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I blame Henry Ford and his dispute with Robertson (the square drive
bit guy) causing him to choose Phillips screws.
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Spline was baby talk. Bristol was the nasty.

Martin

Cydrome Leader wrote:
David Lesher wrote:
Maybe not:

http://www.instructables.com/id/S6HTQK1FOVXP1P6/

Now, if I were $DIETY, I'd ban them all in favor of Trox....but I
digress.


it's sad everybody is trying so hard to make phillips looks bits and fasters
aren't, each with no real advantage in the real world since you can'te tell them
apart anyways.

I still vote on the " spline" as the most obnoxious, expecially when it's already
stripped out by somebody who tried a hex or torx driver already.

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I blame Henry Ford and his dispute with Robertson (the square drive
bit guy) causing him to choose Phillips screws.


Actually the Phillips screw was deigned to cam out to avoid bit and screw
breakage. The Robertson torx and some other screws are designed not to cam
out. Breaking is no longer a problem because of the clutching now available
on modern assembly tools.


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they come up with this striped stuff.


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Default Hubble; Gee, I'm not the only guy who strips screws

Remember our thread on screw types? Reading the Hubble repair coverage; I
note they too had a stripped screwhead, and a stuck bolt.

Torx screws were mentioned in the reporting, but it was not clear if the
offending ones was such or not. They solved the first problem by pulling
on the attached handle until the screw snapped off. I guess NASA forgot
to send along a Dremel with cutter wheels....

The stuck bolt they broke loose by pulling far harder than recommended.
The bolt yield strength was 57 ft-lbs but they got it out intact.

Click & Clack noted that one member of the team, John Grunsfeld, was a
MIT grad & an ex-customer of their shop. He actually called in during
STS-81 in 1997 and described his vehicle as a Rockwell camper van
conversion. If he'd asked for their help this time, I bet they'd have
reminded him "Nolite id cogere, cape malleum majorem..."


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