:) you likely do. But if you find some hard to get to screw --like on newer cars designed in CAD-- it's nice to know what's available. They sell direct or thru Amazon. I buy direct.

I couldn't figure out the different designations for the Chapman screwdriver sizes. May try on a browser window w/o any blocking for popups, etc. on it.

I did however find some SWISS screwdrivers...

https://www.shop.pbtools.us/PB-8135-SwissGrip-Stubby-Screwdriver-for-Slotted-Flat-screws_c418.htm

If you have original Webers, then your best move is to make a custom screwdriver by meticulously filing down one that is slightly too wide.

I know you don't want to make a new tool, but adding a perpendicular stub helps in fine-tuning angles and remembering number of turns.
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1562849296.jpg

Have mercy guys please!! I'm on a fixed income. Yer killin' me with these awesome websites!

:) ^ I know. right?

https://chapmanmfg.com/collections/individual-parts/products/slotted-insert-bits

Pull-down menu gives dim's.

Thx


BTW, I found a nice looking Hazet but it is $26 or $41 (2 sellers) - seems crazy

The SnapOff and others are mostly in the $10-$14 range

I'd take a Craftsman stubby and melt the shaft out, then cut off and epoxy in a tip i liked from another screwdriver.

I seem to get along fine with my assortment of orphan screwdrivers plus a set of CM in flat and Phillips. I have some SO and other "truck" brands as well. A good CM is as good IMHO.

The trick is to have the blade of a taper model just not quite bottom out. If it has any movement before you bare down with the torque, you're heading for a problem. I have more flat SD's because I have lots of thicknesses to fit screws of many origings. On the antiques I work on there will be nothing but slotted screws and I need to keep them so they don't look like they have been used.

The so called hollow ground models allow not a fraction of tolerance. If the slotted screw has already been buggered, no screw driver alone will help much. You have to resort to the various 'tricks'. I have a drawer for all those tools as well.

Agreed about special equipment like Webers. Get or make a SD that fits perfectly and keep it fresh and not to be used on your Briggs and Stratton or as a chisel.

How many kludges do you know that have used their SD's for everything? I keep a drawer with dead ones for just that. I'm not immune from abusing tools. I just know which ones to beat on.

https://amazon.com/Screwdriver-Multi-Bit-Klein-Tools-32561/dp/B005FQDHHC/ref=sr_1_3?crid=M739FJETI8R5&keywords=stubby+adjus table+screwdriver&qid=1562877805&s=gateway&sprefix =stubby+adju%2Caps%2C151&sr=8-3

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What can I say, Milt knows his stuff when it comes to tools. Well done.

I had my eye on that Klein for a while - we'll see how the Swiss ones do.

Other brands I looked at:
Hazet - too spendy
Tecton
Wera
Wiha - have a bunch of different blade thicknesses
- a few others I forgot

I rejected Crapsman as being too crappy - the horizontal ridges on the blade are just stamped in - rounded in profile and don't help hold it in the slot well. I have 2 of them and use them as pry bars... or loaners.

Oh lord that's my life. I keep a pristine set of Wihas locked up and hidden - my PhD Engineer wife believes that every screwdriver wants to grow up one day to be a chisel.

A SD that fits perfectly is a pleasure to use.

Yer takin all the fun out of it if you're not willing to get creative!

Flashback...

I come home from work one day and my wife had taken one of my Snap On gasket scrapers and was using it and a hammer to cut bricks in half.

I was not happy. 😡

Thats what I was thinking! If its anything like my tools. I have 50 screwdrivers in a drawer only to find my favorite flathead with no tip on it. My brother or dad use them for prybars and chizels. Wont be long till all my old usa made tools are busted. Cant have anything nice

My wife broke the tip off a 10" French cooking knife. It was a Henckel.