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 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.
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07-10-2019, 08:02 AM
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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 |
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07-10-2019, 10:19 AM
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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.
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07-10-2019, 09:18 PM
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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.
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Have mercy guys please!! I'm on a fixed income. Yer killin' me with these awesome websites!
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^ I know. right? Quote:
Pull-down menu gives dim's.
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Everyone you meet knows something you don't. - - - and a whole bunch of crap that is wrong. Disclaimer: the above was 2¢ worth. More information is available as my professional opinion, which is provided for an exorbitant fee.
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07-11-2019, 09:05 AM
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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 |
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I'd take a Craftsman stubby and melt the shaft out, then cut off and epoxy in a tip i liked from another screwdriver.
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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. |
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What can I say, Milt knows his stuff when it comes to tools. Well done.
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07-11-2019, 02:08 PM
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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. |
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A SD that fits perfectly is a pleasure to use.
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Yer takin all the fun out of it if you're not willing to get creative!
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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. 😡 Quote:
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My wife broke the tip off a 10" French cooking knife. It was a Henckel.
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