The screwdriver is a device specifically designed to insert and tighten, or to loosen and remove, screws. The screwdriver is made up of a head or tip, which engages with a screw, a mechanism to apply torque by rotating the tip, and some way to position and support the screwdriver. A typical hand screwdriver comprises an approximately cylindrical handle of a size and shape to be held by a human hand, and an axial shaft fixed to the handle, the tip of which is shaped to fit a particular type of screw. The handle and shaft allow the screwdriver to be positioned and supported and, when rotated, to apply torque. Screwdrivers are made in a variety of shapes, and the tip can be rotated manually or by an electric or other motor. A screw has a head with a contour such that an appropriate screwdriver tip can be engaged in it in such a way that the application of sufficient torque to the screwdriver will cause the screw to rotate.
Gunsmiths still refer to a screwdriver as a "turnscrew", under which name it is an important part of a set of pistols. The name was common in earlier centuries, used by cabinet makers and shipwrights and perhaps other trades. The Cabinet-Maker's screwdriver is one of the longest-established handle forms, somewhat oval or elipsoid in cross section. This is variously attributed to improving grip or preventing the tool rolling off the bench, but there is no reason to suppose these are not rationalisations. The shape has been popular for a couple of hundred years. It is usually associated with a plain head for slotted screws, but has been used with many head forms. See Also. The History of Screws - [1]
There are many types of screw heads, of which the most common are the slotted, Phillips, PoziDriv/SupaDriv (crosspoint), Robertson, TORX, and Allen (hex). Screwdrivers come in a large variety of sizes to match those of screws, from tiny jeweler's screwdrivers up. If a screwdriver that is not the right size and type for the screw is used, it is likely that the screw will be damaged in the process of tightening it. This is less important for PoziDriv and SupaDriv, which are designed specifically to be more tolerant of size mismatch. When tightening a screw with force, it is important to press the head hard into the screw, again to avoid damaging the screw.
Some manual screwdrivers have a ratchet action whereby the screwdriver blade is locked to the handle for clockwise rotation, but uncoupled for counterclockwise rotation when set for tightening screws. and vice versa for loosening. Many screwdriver designs have a handle with detachable head (the part of the screwdriver which engages with the screw), called bits as with drill bits, allowing a set of one handle and several heads to be used for a variety of screw sizes and types. This kind of design has allowed the development of electrically powered screwdrivers, which, as the name suggests, use an electric motor to rotate the bit. In such cases the terminology for power drills is used, e. g. "shank" or "collet". Some drills can also be fitted with screwdriver heads. Manual screw drivers with a spiral ratchet mechanism to turn pressure (linear motion) into rotational motion also exist, and predate electric screwdrivers. The user pushes the handle toward the workpiece, causing a pawl in a spiral groove to rotate the shank and the removable bit. The ratchet can be set to rotate left or right with each push, or can be locked so that the tool can be used like a conventional screwdriver. Once very popular, these spiral ratchet drivers, using proprietary bits, have been largely discontinued by manufacturers such as Stanley, although one can still find them at vintage tool auctions. Companies such as Lara Specialty Tools now offer a modernized version that uses standard 1/4-inch hex shank power tool bits. Since a variety of drill bits are available in this format, it allows the tool to do double duty as a push drill.
Many modern electrical appliances, if they contain screws at all, use screws with heads other than the typical slotted or Phillips styles. TORX is one such pattern that has become very widespread. The main cause of this trend is manufacturing efficiency. TORX and other types are designed so the driver will not slip out of the fastener as will a Phillips driver. (Slotted screws are rarely used in mass-produced devices, since the driver is not inherently centered on the fastener). A benefit/disadvantage of non-typical fasteners (depending on your point of view) is that it can be more difficult for users of a device to disassemble it than if more-common head types were used, but TORX and other drivers are widely available. Specialized patterns of security screws are also used, such as the Gamebit head style used in all Nintendo consoles, though drivers for most security heads are, again, readily available. While screwdrivers are designed for the above functions, they are commonly also used as improvised substitutes for pry bars, levers, and hole punches, as well as other tools. There is no such thing as a "left-handed screwdriver", as the device can easily be wielded in either hand. To be sent on an errand to find a left-handed screwdriver is often a test of stupidity, or is used as a metaphor for something useless. The term "Birmingham screwdriver" is used jokingly in the UK to denote a hammer or sledgehammer. The handle and shaft of screwdrivers have changed considerably over time. The design is influenced by both purpose and manufacturing requirements. The "Perfect Handle" screwdriver was first manufactured by HD Smith Company that operated from 1850 to 1900. Many manufacturers adopted this handle design world wide. The "Flat Bladed" screwdriver was another design composed of drop forged steel with riveted wood handles? Among slotted screwdrivers, there are a couple of major variations at the blade or bit end involving the profile of the blade as viewed face-on. The more common type is sometimes referred to as keystone, where the blade profile is slightly flared before tapering off at the end. To maximize access in space-restricted applications, the same edges for the cabinet variety, in contrast, are straight and parallel, meeting the end of the blade at a right angle.
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A Screwdriver is a popular highball drink made with orange juice and vodka. Sometimes it is referred to as "Vodka and Orange". While the basic drink is simply the two ingredients, there are many variations, many of these with multiple names, that can be found all over the world.
The earliest written reference to the Screwdriver is from the October 24, 1949 issue of Time. "In the dimly lighted bar of the sleek Park Hotel, Turkish intelligence agents mingle with American engineers and Balkan refugees, drinking the latest Yankee concoction of vodka and orange juice, called a 'screwdriver.'" The drink got its name because the American engineers surreptitiously added vodka to small cans of orange juice and stirred the mixture with their screwdrivers.
The well known Harvey Wallbanger cocktail is a Screwdriver with a splash of Galliano floated on top.
A screwdriver in which the orange juice is replaced with blue bubblegum Jones Soda is a "sonic screwdriver", after the blue-lit device from Doctor Who. Another popular term for any Vodka/Gatorade cocktail is "Vaderade".
Another variation of the Sonic Screwdriver was recently created at the Rose Crown Pub at Epcot in the Walt Disney World Resort. It is a standard screwdriver (vodka and orange juice) mixed with Blue Curacao.
A screwdriver made with brown expired orange juice is called a "Rusty Screwdriver", first served at the US Naval War College when a cache of spoiled orange juice from the late 20th century was discovered during the renovation of Luce Hall in 2008.
A shot of vodka followed by sucking on a slice of orange that has been covered in sugar is known as a Cordless Screwdriver.
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A screw is any shaft with a corkscrew-shaped groove formed on its surface. Screws are used to fasten two objects together. A screwdriver is a tool for driving (turning) screws. screwdrivers have a tip that fits into the head of a screw.
In 1908, square-drive screws were invented by Canadian P. L. Robertson. Twenty-eight years before Henry Phillips patented his Phillips head screws, which are also square-drive screws. The Robertson screw is considered the first recess-drive type fastener practical for production usage. The design became a North American standard, as published in the sixth edition of Industrial Fasteners Institute Metric and Inch Standards. A square-drive head on a screw can be better than a slot head because the screwdriver will not slip out of the screw's head during installation. The Model T car made by the Ford Motor Company (one of Robertson's first customers) used over seven hundred Robertson screws.
In the early 1930s, the Phillips head screw was invented by Henry Phillips. Automobile manufacturers now used car assembly lines. They needed screws that could take greater torque and could provide tighter fastenings. The Phillips head screw was compatible with the automated screwdrivers used in assembly line. Ironically, there is a Philips Screw Company that never made Phillips screws or drivers. Henry Phillips died in 1958 at the age of sixty-eight.
In 1744, the flat-bladed bit for the carpenter's brace was invented, the precursor to the first simple screwdriver. Handheld screwdrivers first appeared after 1800. Different Types of Screws, Drives, and Heads
Every home should have at least one of the more popular screwdriver designs to tighten screws that come loose or need replacement.
A screwdriver amplifies the hand's turning motion to the small, specially designed tip that is inserted into the screw's head. There are numerous tip designs for special applications (such as appliance assembly), but the two most common are standard (also called flat, flared, or straight) and Phillips (X-shaped) tips. The screwdriver handle can be of plastic or wood, sometimes with a rubberized cover to improve grip. Other tips include clutch (hourglass shape), Robertson (square), and Torx (six slots). Some fasteners can be turned either by standard or Phillips tips.
Screwdrivers come in several designs, but the standard model with a flat head is still among the most common. See more pictures of hand tools.
To safely use a screwdriver, first select the appropriate tip and size to fit the fastener's head. The fastener may require that a starter hole be made with a drill or by pressing the tip into the material. Insert the screwdriver tip into the screw head and turn the handle clockwise, applying pressure on the handle to hold the tip firmly in the head. Continue turning the screwdriver firmly, making sure the screw remains straight as it enters the material. Make sure your hand is away from the screw in case the screwdriver slips off the screw head.
Screwdrivers require no maintenance beyond ensuring that the tips do not become misshapen. Standard screwdriver tips can be filed down if necessary, but Phillips and other screwdriver tips cannot easily be reshaped. For best results, buy screwdrivers of hardened steel.
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It wasn't until vodka swept through mid-twentieth-century America that the Screwdriver - along with other tempting libations (Moscow Mule and Martini to name a couple), began to gain recognition with bartenders as the modern contemporary of highball. Suffice to say a premium vodka (Absolut, Stoli, Smirnoff) will often be considered essential for this drink. Pour 2 ounces of this (over a few ice cubes) into a highball glass, and fill the glass with 4 - 6 ounces of freshly squeezed orange juice. Add an orange wheel or a dash of angostura bitters to your highball for a lick of (optional) garnish.
I make my Screwdrivers with Absolut Citron and they taste much better than with regular vodka. Overall this is a fairly dull drink, but refreshing on a hot day and easy to make when you just don't feel like whipping up a proper cocktail.
I really have to force myself to drink something if I can taste the alcohol, but all I taste in the screwdriver drink is the orange juice. I downed 4 or 5 drinks while playing the flippy cup drinking game, and let me tell you I was feeling pretty good after awhile. I'll take vodka over tequila any day. Tequila makes me depressed while vodka makes me giggle!
My version of a screwdriver I came up with last night. 3/4 shot vodka, 3/4 shot Triple Sec, 2 shots orange juice, and a few drops of lime juice. Shake with 6 or so ice cubes, pour into an old-fashioned glass. It's freakin delicious. A little bit smaller and stronger of a drink than a standard screwdriver, I think.
Not surprisingly, the first Screwdriver - said to be invented as early as the 1950's - was made with little of the above altercation. American oilrig workers in the Middle East at the time (Iran, as it happens), used vodka to spice up their supply of canned orange juice. One of the men was seen taking a screwdriver to stir his drink thus giving rise to the name. By this time though, the mere combination of vodka and orange had already surfaced in America. The Hal Ligon, dubbed the "original screwdriver", was created in Key West during the 1930's, where famous author Ernest Hemingway (creator of the Montgomery) and fishing buddy Hal Ligon began ordering it at local bars. Their mixture of vodka, orange, and 7-Up - akin to the Screw-Up - is thought to have evolved into today's Screwdriver after migrating north into mainland Florida. Accordingly, you can still order a Hal Ligon today in many of South Florida's bars. You may favor a Slow Screw (Sloe Gin), Creamsicle Screwdriver (Vanilla Vodka), or Southern Screw (with Southern Comfort) over the original. This, or a habit of using rum or adding apple juice to the mix however, could well demonstrate your craving for something different altogether. Those conversant of such delights as a Cosmopolitan or Mai Tai, for example, are likely to opt for a more dignified complexity to their drink, be they in the enthusiastic minority or simply of good taste.
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Screwdrivers are made in various shapes and sizes and for many uses. Use the correct screwdriver for the job.
For cross head screws, use the correct size and type of screwdriver. a Phillips screwdriver may slip out of a screw head designed for use with the slightly, flatter-tipped Pozidriv screwdriver.
Keep the screwdriver handle clean. A greasy handle could cause an injury or damage from unexpected slippage..
If work must be carried out on live equipment, use screwdrivers that have insulated handles designed for electrical work and a non-conducting shaft. Remember, most plastic handles are designed for grip and comfort.
Use a screw-holding screwdriver (with screw-holding clips or magnetic blades) to get screws started in awkward, hard-to-reach areas. Square-tipped screwdrivers (e. g., Robertson) that hold screws with recessed square holes are also useful in such situations.
A Yankee drill mechanism (spiral ratchet screwdriver or push screwdriver) which rotates the blade when the tool is pushed forward,
Store screwdrivers in a rack or partitioned pouch so that the proper screwdriver can be selected quickly.
Do not hold the stock in one hand while using the screwdriver with the other. If the screwdriver slips out of the slot you may cut your hand.
Do not try to use screwdrivers on screw heads for which they are not designed (e. g., straight blade screwdrivers on Phillips, clutch head, Torx or multi-flutted spline screw heads).
Do not use defective screwdrivers (i. e., ones with rounded or damaged edges or tips. split or broken handle. or bent shaft).
Do not use pliers on the handle of a screwdriver for extra turning power. A wrench should only be used on the square screwdriver shank designed for that purpose.
Do not expose a screwdriver blade to excessive heat. Heat can affect the temper of the metal and weaken the tool.
Do not use a screwdriver to check if an electrical circuit is live. Use a suitable meter or other circuit testing device.
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The screwdriver should fill the screw slot or head completely or come within 1/16" of doing so. If the tip is too small, the driver will not have enough bite to turn the screw and will slip, stripping the head. If the tip is too large, it will not seat all the way to the bottom of the screw's head and will strip the top portion of the head. Ideally, when you seat the driver in the screw head there shouldn't be any play or slop between the two. At worst, there shouldn't be more than 1/32" of play. As a general rule, most Philips and Robertson screws are #2, but the it's best to have a full set of sizes so you're not tempted to use the wrong size driver and take the chance of stripping out a screw head.
Screwdrivers with the same tips have different sizes usually graduated from #0 to #4. Avoid stripping screws. use the appropriate driver on your projects.
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You may not need these types of screwdrivers often, but when you do need them, nothing else will do. They're great for tightening eyeglass screws or opening up the cases of small electronic devices. This is a nice set. It comes with 4 slotted and 2 philips style in a variety of sizes. They seem to be well made and I suspect that they last a long time. The swivel heads allow you to put downward pressure on the screwdriver as you turn it to minimize the risk of stripping the head on delicate small screws. The case has a labeled space for each screwdriver. It's your typical plastic case with a snap top and should hold up as long as you don't step on it or drop something on it. This set is a nice value for the price.
The Craftsman small screwdriver set is for everyone. It is handy and comes in a convenient little case. It uses are endless and for the price I think it should be a staple of any man's tool set. From watches and glasses to those small screws on computers there is a screwdriver in this set that will fit. It is reasonably priced and remarkably convenient. I highly recommend making this a part of everyone's household.
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Apologies for the comparative quiet, dear readers. January was a quiet month - I didnt stray beyond New York and New England, and I spent a lot of my time writing, working on some longer pieces that didnt appear on the blog. If you missed having your aggregators filled with posts from me, never fear - I head to California tonight for the TED conference which begins tomorrow morning. Ive blogged from TED since 2006, reporting on four conferences (including TED Global in Arusha), and appear to have developed something of a reputation - in one of the documents sent to attendees, theres a note that suggests that you shouldnt feel compelled to liveblog unless your name is Ethan Zuckerman. No pressure, huh. Unfortunately, I cant provide commentary for all of TED this year - Ive got a previous commitment on Thursday, so Ill be blogging tomorrow, then Friday and Saturday. Ill be linking to friends who are blogging so you can follow through their eyes on Thursday. There are a couple of articles comparing TED to the World Economic Forum at Davos, a comparison thats interesting, but strained, in my opinion. Bruce Nussbaum asks which conference has the answers to todays crisis, while Steve Rosenbaum sees big ideas championed at past TEDs that were thwarted in a Bush administration and likely to be embraced in the era of Obama. And certainly the back-to-back scheduling of the conferences invites comparisons and speculation about whos flying directly from one to the other. From a bloggers perspective, theyre incredibly different events. Davos is all about panels - five important, powerful and/or fascinating people take the stage, and theyve all got a few minutes to make their points before the next person takes the microphone. Its virtually impossible to blog, and that would miss the point anyway, as the interesting conversations take place in hallways, over dinner, over drinks, and Im not privy to most of them. TEDs a different beast entirely. Sure, theres lots of conversation between the folks in the audience between the sessions. But people actually pay attention to whats transpiring on stage. The folks on the TED stage are frequently less well known than the people in the audience, but theyre almost uniformly fascinating, and the folks in the audience are, generally speaking, spending their time and money to hear what they have to say, not to talk with each other. This helps explain why making TED talks available on video was such a brilliant move (and one for which June Cohen deserves to be widely celebrated.) Watching most panels from Davos wouldnt be especially interesting to anyone but a conspiracy theorist - watching the vast majority of TED talks is worth your time. I try to make it to TED and Pop! Tech every year because they provide a great amount of raw material for thinking, ideas to mull over for the rest of the year. Its possible Davos might do the same if I were more a finance junkie and less a big idea guy, but I suspect Id still find the format frustrating. I tend to group TED in my mind with other events that provide me food for thought for the rest of the year. Pop! Tech, OReillys ETech conference, Idea Festival, PUSH, PICNIC and others, all of which put extremely smart speakers on stage in a format conducive to getting big ideas across. Comparing TED and Davos feels like comparing screwdrivers and herring - theyre both things I like, things that can be extremely useful and the comparisons get somewhat tricky from there. Im very glad that TED has instituted a fellows program this year, inviting in some of the brightest lights of the TED Global conference in Arusha and a wide set of global innovators. Im especially glad that a good percentage of these folks are bloggers, so we should have a chance to get TED through different peoples eyes. And many of the folks involved are good friends, so Im looking forward to the chance to reconnect. This is a place where Davos deserves some real credit - WEF has worked very hard over the years to make their conferences accessible to NGO folks as well as global bankers. Big conferences like TED and Pop! Tech have been realizing a similar need and opportunity, and Im thrilled TED is doing well enough that it can make it possible for this impressive group of forty to attend the conference. I am curious to see what the mood is at TED. Friends who attended Davos report the mood was pretty somber, which makes sense, as virtually everyone there is acutely focused on the current fiscal crisis. TEDs focus tends to be on much larger, longer-range problems, which might lead to a more hopeful point of view, one that sees the current crisis as a short-term one. I suspect that wont be entirely true - its awfully hard to look a hundred years ahead when youre worried about laying people off next month. I have high hopes that the folks on the TED stage will be looking decades in the future, but Im not especially confident that everyone in the audience will be. Okay, liveblogging tomorrow, packing today. See you from Long Beach.
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Screwdrivers are important. Really. you just can’.t do anything without them. And it turns out that lots are lots better than just a few. This is about that. Illustrated. We’.re not home-improvement fanatics but we’.re up to quite a few of the basics, and any time you’.re going to fix anything, screwing is involved. After a decade of marriage and home ownership, we had three or four different multi-bit screwdrivers. Then, not too long ago, I was trying to fix something complicatedly three-dimensional, and the blue clouds of profanity were starting to threaten the children’.s moral development. Not too long after, Lauren brought this home.
Let me tell you, this is a big win. A multi-bit screwdriver is damn versatile, but at the end of the day, it’.s just
From. JY (Jul 29 2008, at 23.54)The best bricolage investment i did (it's almost the only one.-D ) was buying a set of expensive Facom screwdrivers. ( )I had bought some very cheap Chinese ones (1 euro per screwdriver, great!), and the diffrence between a bad one and a good one is enormous. The good one makes you feel you're always putting your screws in butter. I almost feel ashamed for writing this. I sound like a screwdriver nerd. [link]
From. Jim Millen (Jul 30 2008, at 01.24)Heh. Replace screwdrivers with kitchen knives and you've got my pet obsession - how people manage to cook at all with some of the horrors I've seen in their kitchens I have no idea. [link]
From. MilesZS (Jul 30 2008, at 05.55)Dynamic Langauges = Multi-bit Screwdrivers, Static Langauges = No-Moving-Parts Screwdriver?Well, that is depressing, in the context of this story. It is the first thing that came to mind, though, and my primary language is Ruby. Perhaps it has real-world support. Rubyists use Ruby for a lot of things (everything), but when things get really frustrating and they need to get down to the nuts-and-bolts and make something perform, they drop in to C. Does it fit?I have a strong urge to go out and add substantially to my screwdriver collection right now. (I'm not being metaphorical -- I want to visit a hardware store.) [link]
From. len (Jul 30 2008, at 06.12)Next comes the big plastic toolchest. Then the industrial Craftsman rack. Then you are in the garage cursing again because family members never put the screwdriver back in the right drawer. And so it goes. You've become the average dad having an average day. Welcome to blessed mediocrity. The Europeans tell us they understand Americans better than we do ourselves. It's rubbish but it makes them feel superior long after they've become a third-rate socialist rabble. In Britain, a sonic screwdriver is a toy used by a sci-fi hero to adjust the neutron phase continuum. In America, it is a fast food drive in cola with vodka. The software metaphor. a fat client always performs better if you could just find one that does what you want when you want to do it. [link]
From. Mark (Jul 30 2008, at 06.54)The UN*X philosophy of "do one thing well."Quick, someone write up the canonical "if operating systems were screwdrivers" list and post it to rec. humor. funny. [link]
From. Will Snow (Jul 30 2008, at 07.05)I'm scared to show my collection of screwdrivers. Ok, that said, the number one cause of injury in the home is. The Screwdriver! [link]
From. John Sellens (Jul 30 2008, at 07.06)This requires a reference to the book "One Good Turn. A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw" by Witold Rybczynski. [link]
From. Noah Tye (Jul 30 2008, at 07.51)"This totally has to serve as a metaphor for something in the software world, right?"The multibit screwdriver has had the common part (the handle) refactored out, at the expense of simplicity and performance. Sometimes I try to reduce code duplication, but wind up with a mess of maps and lambdas and applys that is hard to understand and even longer than the original. I should have stuck with the original, plain old function calls, duplicated though they may be. Likewise, plain old screwdrivers are better. [link]
From. Amos (Jul 30 2008, at 09.16)A "Good" Ratcheting screwdriver is worth its weight in gold. I was lucky enough to win one from Snap-On many years ago and it has survived through working in a heavy equipment shop, repairing countless jalopies, an entire home renovation and the set up of a new data centre. Never once has it failed me. That being said. . . .A proper set of good quality screwdrivers will make most jobs go faster and easier. [link]
From. amused (Jul 30 2008, at 10.27)Honestly, those photos mean something else to me entirely. To me, they mean the author.- is not the least bit mechanically inclined - goes for quantity over quality or has difficulty perceiving qualityThose screwdrivers are cheap, dangerous crap that will destroy screws and or shatter. They should be tossed, and should never have been bought in the first place. Hint. [link]
From. Tim (but not THE Tim) (Jul 30 2008, at 14.22)I can't comment on the Snap-on brand of tools. but in the US it's not a bad investment to buy Craftsman hand tools at Sears. My dad, a life-long professional mechanic, convinced me to buy Craftsman tools long ago. The hand tools (NOT the power tools) are guaranteed for life, even if you use them in non-standard ways. I just had to replace a 3/8 in. socket wrench that was 17 years old, because the ratchet quit working correctly - they replaced it with no questions, no paperwork, no hassle. I agree that multiple screwdrivers gives you the right one for each job. I do wish, however, that we'd eliminate certain types of screw heads. I'd favor Torx heads myself, could compromise on Phillips, but would like to eliminate the straight slot screws, the driver slips out of them too easily. Some time back Wired had an article on screw standardization which is a good read. [link]
From. MikeP (Jul 30 2008, at 15.14)I'm more interested in what happens to the metaphor in a year or so when all the Phillips drivers go missing and all you're left with is the huge slot screwdriver and a couple of useless Robertson drivers. What usually happens is somebody goes and gets a couple new sets. Then a year later you have twice as many huge slot and small Robertson drivers, and you still can't find a decent Phillips - but it takes you twice as long to figure that out. [link]
From. D. S. Morse (Jul 30 2008, at 18.39)I'd say the metaphor is that you can give your customers a product that is highly flexible and has 100 different uses, but at the end of the day all they want is a product that does the one thing they care about well. # of features not so important, the quality it performs the one the customer cares about VERY IMPORTANT!! (although personally I'd never give up my snapon multi-bit screwdriver) [link]
From. Tony Fisk (Jul 31 2008, at 21.37)Real software programmers use screwdrivers? (and soldering irons)Issue on contributing. Real software programmers speak in tongues like 'Error. Module consistency-check configurator has invalid index. exiting.' Seems someone has used their sonic screwdriver to 'reverse the polarity of the chronic configurator!' (aka check the batteries!) [link]
From. Mark (Aug 06 2008, at 23.01)I wish they had sets like that for eyeglasses screwdrivers. I can never find one small enough or just the right size thickness or width to avoid stripping out the top of the screw. [link]
From. font9a (Aug 30 2008, at 00.01)i asked a google answers (now defunct) question a few years ago about who made the best best screwdrivers. No one even proffered an answer for my $50 question (don't ask.)I am fanatical about quality hand tools for my multiple mountain bikes, c. Wiha (Germany) I think makes a terrific set of small drivers ( us. flats) and Torx (7 - 15) as well as the full range of phillips heads. They are quite quality and a lot cheaper than Swiss watchmaking tools if all you're doing is working on bikes and computers. Swiss tools are the best you can get, but they are very expensive and specialized. As far as larger had screwdrivers go I have been disappointed with Craftsman the last 10 years or so (except that their newest polished line of spanners are the rocking-est. even better in my opinion than Snap-On. I have a 12/14" that replaced my Fullers, a 15mm crows foot, 21mm crows foot, and a 1" (26mm) that are absolutely perfect in every way).Snap-On makes the best American screwdrivers out there period. Mac Tools (if they manage to live another year are a close second). If you need specialty drivers (for RC cars / planes, etc.) Hudy is your brand of record. Team Associated also makes great drivers (I have a set of allens and a set of hexes).I go with Hudy allen wrenches up to 19mm usually -- but they are spendy (up to $30 a tool). Hexes and Torx I use Craftsman for my polished hand ratchets and torque wrench. The craftsman torque wrench is a piece of crap. If you can afford it, get the very best -- the Giustaforza Torque Wrench ($185).I have a set of Xcelite (Germany) hand screwdrivers that seem to be holding up well. They have stainless shafts and slightly tacky plastic, yet ample grips. Very dependable. Fullers makes pretty good tools. I have a few that have hung in there, but the plastic grips tend to feel very brittle after 10+ years. I do like their ratchets and drivers, though. ACE Hardware I think used to own Fullers, but the last 3/8" -- 1/4" adapter was made in China and the ball fixture was a piece of crap. I have a set of metric spanners from Fuller that are absolutely top-notch. Sweden makes a lot of quality hand tools, too. I forget their names, but I own a couple of hole saws that cost me upwards of $400 and they are rounder than Jolie's butt many uses later. Stay away from Husky, and anything sold in bulk from Home Despot. Also stay awar from the Park series of home mechanics tools. Opt for Park's shop tools. the quality is night and day different. Park pro tools are very good. As are Shimano. Don't even consider Sette -- they are the worst I've ever used. Japan makes excellent tools. I have many Hozan brand specialty spanners for headsets and bottom brackets. They make screwdrivers and other conventional tools, too in the JIS standard. But for the money I'd buy Snap-On unless it was for a truly unique purpose. Happy hunting.-- c [link]
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ISBN #. us. Published. 2008 Product Type. Print-Book No. of pages. 56 This Standard covers straight handle-type screwdrivers of flat tip, PHILLIPS and POZIDRIV designs intended for manual operation in driving or removing screws with slotted and PHILLIPS or POZIDRIV recesses. It also covers hexagonal shank flat tip and PHILLIPS (PH)[1] and POZIDRIV (PZ) design screwdriver bits intended for manual (non-power) operation in driving or removing screws with slotted heads and screws with PHILLIPS or POZIDRIV recesses. Additionally, it specifies two types of penetration gaging of Phillips (PH) and Pozidriv (PZ) screwdrivers and supplements the ASME blade and bit standards. These screwdrivers are of the types normally used by cabinetmakers, carpenters, sheet metal workers, production workers, mechanics, etc. The intention is to specify performance rather than design detail. Inclusion of dimensional data in the Standard does not imply that all of the products described herein are stock production sizes. Consumers are requested to consult with manufacturers concerning lists of stock production sizes. Using a screwdriver as a pry bar or striking it with a hammer are clearly misuses of the tool, and nothing in this Standard shall be interpreted as condoning any tool misuse. Further information about proper use of screwdrivers is contained in the Guide to Hand Tools-Selection, Safety Tips, Proper Use and Care. Table of Contents
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Screwdrivers are self-explanatory. They are used to drive in and remove screws. Too often they are wrongly used - for chipping, punching holes, scraping, prying, and so forth. The Philips head is a common screw and screwdriver. Its design reduces blade slippage from the cross-shaped slot and lends itself to driving with a power bit. The conventional screwdriver has a single blade and is used with screws of matching heads. Battery-powered cordless screwdrivers are now on the market and are a very helpful tool. Screw heads are usually flat, oval or round, and each has a specific purpose for final seating and appearance. Flat heads are always countersunk or rest flush with the surface. Oval heads permit countersinking, but the head protrudes somewhat. Round-headed screws rest on top of the material and are easiest to remove. Screw types include the wood screw for when stronger joining than a nail is needed, or for when other materials must be fastened to wood. This screw is tapered to help draw the wood together as the screw is inserted. A sheet metal screw can also be used to fasten metal to wood, as well as metal to metal, plastic or other materials. Sheet metal screws are threaded completely from the point to the head, and the threads are sharper than those of wood screws. Machine screws are used for joining metal parts, such as hinges to metal door jambs. These are inserted into tapped (pre-threaded) holes and are sometimes used with washers and nuts. Lag screws, or square-headed bolts with screw heads, are for heavy holding and are driven in with a wrench rather than a screwdriver. When choosing screw length, remember that the screw should penetrate 2/3 of the combined thickness of the materials being joined. Consider as well moisture conditions and the make-up of the materials being fastened, to avoid corrosion. Use galvanized or other rust-resistant screws where rust could be a problem.
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The screwdriver handle requires little introduction, since anyone who has ever used a tool, is probably familiar with this handle style already. Like many things, however, the screwdriver handle has recently evolved into a more ergonomic and useful design than anything that existed in the past. Screwdriver Considerations. A good choice when low to medium torque is required or the blade is smaller than 3/16 inches. Protects against blade breakage better than any other handle type. Allows fast insertion and removal. Allows spinning with the fingertips. Reaches areas too restricted for operating a T-Handle. The utility of the screwdriver handle is greatly extended when mated with a ball end tip. Bondhus® Advantages. The handle core is molded from durable plastic, and designed to last a lifetime. The ergonomic design has a comfortable feel in the hand, even after long periods of use. A slightly cushioned feel helps to prevent fatigue and improve grip. Handle and blade torque are matched, to prevent breaking the tip. Bondhus® screwdriver handles, up to 3/16", can generate a screws full recommended seating torque. The subtle texture covering the handle provides good grip, even when hands are wet or oily. Bondhus® handles will not roll off an inclined or vibrating surface. Protanium® Steel ProGuard dry finish
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BackgroundIt would be very difficult to find an American household that did not have at least one screwdriver. Perhaps the most ubiquitous of hand tools, the screwdriver has a long genealogy, the result of a complicated manufacturing process. Archimedes is considered to have invented the screw in the third century
Large wooden screws were used in presses for producing wine and olive oil, and were turned with spikes stuck into or through a handle that resembled a modern corkscrew used for opening wine bottles, although larger. These were made of wood with a flat rather than a pointed end, and a container to hold the material being pressed. Metal screws and nuts seem to have been used as fasteners in the fifteenth century, although the heads of these screws were turned with a wrench and not a screwdriver—.the screw heads were either square or hexagonal. Screws with slots in their heads were found in armor in the following century, although the design of the tool used to work the screws, the screwdriver, is unknown. The modern screwdriver descends directly from a flat-bladed bit used in a carpenter'.s brace circa 1750. Woodworkers were using hand screwdrivers in the early 1800s, and they became more common after 1850, when machines made the automatic production of screws possible. These early screwdrivers were flat throughout the length of their shaft. the current design of a rounded bar that is flattened or shaped only at the working end makes the tool much stronger and takes advantage of the round wire used in its manufacture. The oldest and most common type of screwdriver is the slotted screwdriver, which fits a screw with a single slot in the head. There are perhaps thirty different types of screwdrivers available today in a variety of sizes, all with different purposes and all designed to fit into special screws. The second most widely used screwdriver, the ".Phillips,". was invented in the late 1920s by Henry Phillips. Soon after its introduction, the tool posed a dilemma for its user—.the head of the driver pulls away from the screw as it is fastened, or ".cam-out,". leading to stripped screw heads and assemblies that are difficult to take apart. However, cam-out became a virtue. the screws were meant to be driven with a power tool, and the assembler would know that the screw was completely driven when his power tool slid out of the screw head. A screw head that could accept the greater torque (turning power) of a power tool was an advantage over hand-turned, slotted screw heads. Today, manufacturers are producing or gearing up production of Phillips screwdrivers that eliminate cam-out. Possible solutions (although details of some systems are company secrets) focus on the angle of the edges that fit into the Phillips screw, or using a better gripping material to coat or plate the screwdriver tip. The torx screwdriver, widely used for automobile repair and other applications, was designed to take the torque that a Phillips screw can while eliminating the cam-out problem. It has six edges in a star pattern on its flat point, and fits flat into the screw head. It is not unusual to find torx drivers sold in a set with slotted and Phillips screwdrivers. Other types of screwdrivers have been designed for special uses, and a well-stocked hardware store will have slotted, Phillips, torx, Robertson (a square shaft that fits into a corresponding square cut out in the head of the screw), and other more obscure types of screwdrivers. Some screwdrivers have not found a ready market, such as one that was designed to fit into special screws that have slots both on the top of the screw and on the side of the screw head, with corresponding grippers on the point of the screwdriver. There are so many screwdrivers and types of screws available that even a high quality of design innovation is overcome by consumer resistance to purchasing new types of screwdrivers and corresponding screws. Raw MaterialsThe raw materials for most screwdrivers are very basic. steel wire for the bar and plastic (usually cellulose acetate) for the handle. In addition, the steel tips are generally plated with nickel or chromium. The ManufacturingProcessMaking a flat-tip or slotted screwdriver is not very different than making any other configuration. Variations between a flat-tip and a Phillips screwdriver will be discussed later in this entry. Making the steel bar
Next, the wire is straightened by a string forge and then transferred to a cold forming press, which cuts the wire to the appropriate length and forms the tip of the screwdriver and the ".wings". that will fit into the handle. These wings can be seen through a clear or semi-clear plastic handle. The newly formed ".bar". (the actual screwdriver without Ats handle) is then heat treated in an in-line furnace at approximately 1,555 degrees Fahrenheit (846 degrees Celsius). This is a continuous flow process, and as the bars come through the furnace they fall into an oil quench for cooling. The bars are then placed in a draw back oven (450 to 500 degrees Fahrenheit or 232 to 259 degrees Celsius) and baked to a specified hardness.
Consumer model screwdrivers are nickel-plated—.covered with a protective coating of nickel—.before assembly. If the screwdriver is designated for professional use, it is transferred to a hand-grinding department, where the tip is ground to size. The shank is chemically milled and then polished. The screwdriver then goes to a nickel flash bath and is electrically chrome plated.
After the cold forming press (step #3 above) cuts the wire, the screwdriver is sent to a ".swage and grind". operation, where dies form blades for the tip from the heated wire. The tool is then ground and the wings are formed.
If a professional model is being produced, the bar goes to a tipping operation (an automatic tipping machine that creates the bullet point), and then to a profilator machine (a machine that cuts a ".profile".). This latter machine cuts the four grooves or slots on the sides above the point. The wire is then winged, and heat-treated in the same way as the flat-tip screwdriver bars. Consumer model Phillips screwdrivers are nickel plated, while the professional model is polished and nickel/chrome plated.
The handles of a screwdriver are usually made of cellulose acetate. it is delivered to the factory in powder form (cellulose acetate rosin) and then mixed with a liquid plasticizer in a giant blender that holds approximately 1,000 pounds (454 kilograms) of the mixed material. If a colored handle is desired, pigments are added into the blender. The resulting paste, which has the consistency of thick cake batter, then goes to an extruder (a machine that forces a material out through an opening, the way a meat grinder forces out strings of meat), which extrudes a solid piece of cellulose acetate. The cellulose acetate is then cut into small pellets.
The method of final assembly depends on the quality of the tool being produced. Professional models are assembled individually on a horizontal assembly machine that hydraulically forces the bar into the plastic handle. The handles are branded by a hot stamp immediately before going into the assembly machine. This assembly process requires one skilled operator for each machine. Other models might be assembled on hydraulic presses, three at a time. The least expensive models are assembled six at a time on one machine and placed by robot on a skin card machine that packages the screwdrivers for mass-market sale.
Before packaging, the screwdrivers might be fitted with a special handle cover, depending on need. A rubber cap fitted over a screwdriver handle, for example, might be more comfortable for a professional using his tool five or six hours a day. A large handle with deep grooves might be ideal for some workers, while the home handyman who assembles a lamp or cabinet once every six months may not need or want to pay for the extra comfort.
Quality ControlConsumer Reports magazine found, in 1983 tests, that the type of finish had little effect on the quality of screwdrivers, although most of their tested screwdrivers were plated. Poor-quality plating, on the other hand, might indicate that not enough care was paid to the tool in the manufacturing process. Similarly, poor-quality grinding can lead to rounded edges and corners which will not be as efficient as they could be. a tip that was burned during the grinding process may not be as hard as it should be. Where To Learn MoreBooksHoffman, E. Fundamentals of Tool Design. T/C Publications, 1984.Pollack, Herman W. Tool Design. Prentice Hall, 1988.Self, Charles R. Fasten It. TAB Books, 1984.Watson, Aldren A. Hand Tools. Their Ways and Workings. Portland House, 1982.PeriodicalsBailey, Jeff. ".Does Henry Phillips, Bane of Handymen, Really Rest in Peace?". Wall Street Journal, September 15, 1988, p. 4.".Screwdrivers,". Consumer Reports. January, 1983, pp. 44-7.Kinghorn, Bob. ".The New Age of Screwdriving,". Family Handyman. October, 1989, p. 12.Pierson, John. ".Screwdriver Redesign Aims to Lock Out Slips,". Wall Street Journal. January 22, 1991, pp. 1-2.Yeaple, Frank. ".Zinc'.s Properties Enhance Hand Tool'.s Producibility,". Design News. January 22, 1990, p. 115.[Article by. Lawrence H. Berlow]
A mixed drink of orange juice and vodka served over ice. Its origins are unknown but the most popular tale is that it was named in the 1950s by American oil-rig workers stationed in the Middle East who opened and stirred cans of this mixture with their screwdrivers.
The screwdriver is a device specifically designed to insert and tighten, or to loosen and remove, screws. The screwdriver comprises a head or tip which engages with a screw, a mechanism to apply torque by rotating the tip, and some way to position and support the screwdriver. A typical hand screwdriver comprises an approximately cylindrical handle of a size and shape to be held by a human hand, and an axial shaft fixed to the handle, the tip of which is shaped to fit a particular type of screw. The handle and shaft allow the screwdriver to be positioned and supported and, when rotated, to apply torque. Screwdrivers are made in a variety of shapes, and the tip can be rotated manually or by an electric or other motor. A screw has a head with a contour such that an appropriate screwdriver tip can be engaged in it in such a way that the application of sufficient torque to the screwdriver will cause the screw to rotate.
Gunsmiths still refer to a screwdriver as a "turnscrew", under which name it is an important part of a set of pistols. The name was common in earlier centuries, used by cabinet makers and shipwrights and perhaps other trades. The Cabinet-Maker's screwdriver is one of the longest-established handle forms, somewhat oval or elipsoid in cross section. This is variously attributed to improving grip or preventing the tool rolling off the bench, but there is no reason to suppose these are not rationalisations. The shape has been popular for a couple of hundred years. It is usually associated with a plain head for slotted screws, but has been used with many head forms.
There are many types of screw heads, of which the most common are the slotted, Phillips, PoziDriv/SupaDriv (crosspoint), Robertson, TORX, and Allen (hex). Screwdrivers come in a large variety of sizes to match those of screws, from tiny jeweler's screwdrivers up. If a screwdriver that is not the right size and type for the screw is used, it is likely that the screw will be damaged in the process of tightening it. This is less important for PoziDriv and SupaDriv, which are designed specifically to be more tolerant of size mismatch. When tightening a screw with force, it is important to press the head hard into the screw, again to avoid damaging the screw.
Some manual screwdrivers have a ratchet action whereby the screwdriver blade is locked to the handle for clockwise rotation, but uncoupled for counterclockwise rotation when set for tightening screws. and vice versa for loosening. Many screwdriver designs have a handle with detachable head (the part of the screwdriver which engages with the screw), called bits as with drill bits, allowing a set of one handle and several heads to be used for a variety of screw sizes and types. This kind of design has allowed the development of electrically powered screwdrivers, which, as the name suggests, use an electric motor to rotate the bit. In such cases the terminology for power drills is used, e. g. "shank" or "collet". Some drills can also be fitted with screwdriver heads. Manual screw drivers with a spiral ratchet mechanism to turn pressure (linear motion) into rotational motion also exist, and predate electric screwdrivers. The user pushes the handle toward the workpiece, causing a pawl in a spiral groove to rotate the shank and the removable bit. The ratchet can be set to rotate left or right with each push, or can be locked so that the tool can be used like a conventional screwdriver. Once very popular, these spiral ratchet drivers, using proprietary bits, have been largely discontinued by manufacturers such as Stanley, although one can still find them at vintage tool auctions. Companies such as Lara Specialty Tools now offer a modernized version that uses standard 1/4-inch hex shank power tool bits. Since a variety of drill bits are available in this format, it allows the tool to do double duty as a push drill.
Many modern electrical appliances, if they contain screws at all, use screws with heads other than the typical slotted or Phillips styles. TORX is one such pattern that has become very widespread. The main cause of this trend is manufacturing efficiency. TORX and other types are designed so the driver will not slip out of the fastener as will a Phillips driver. (Slotted screws are rarely used in mass-produced devices, since the driver is not inherently centered on the fastener). A benefit/disadvantage of non-typical fasteners (depending on your point of view) is that it can be more difficult for users of a device to disassemble it than if more-common head types were used, but TORX and other drivers are widely available. Specialized patterns of security screws are also used, such as the Gamebit head style used in all Nintendo consoles, though drivers for most security heads are, again, readily available. While screwdrivers are designed for the above functions, they are commonly also used as improvised substitutes for pry bars, levers, and hole punches, as well as other tools. There is no such thing as a "left-handed screwdriver", as the device can easily be wielded in either hand. To be sent on an errand to find a left-handed screwdriver is often a test of stupidity, or is used as a metaphor for something useless. The term "Birmingham screwdriver" is used jokingly in the UK to denote a hammer or sledgehammer. The handle and shaft of screwdrivers have changed considerably over time. The design is influenced by both purpose and manufacturing requirements. The "Perfect Handle" screwdriver was first manufactured by HD Smith Company that operated from 1850 to 1900. Many manufacturers adopted this handle design world wide. The "Flat Bladed" screwdriver was another design composed of drop forged steel with riveted wood handles? Among slotted screwdrivers, there are a couple of major variations at the blade or bit end involving the profile of the blade as viewed face-on. The more common type is sometimes referred to as keystone, where the blade profile is slightly flared before tapering off at the end. To maximize access in space-restricted applications, the same edges for the cabinet variety, in contrast, are straight and parallel, meeting the end of the blade at a right angle.
Witold Rybczynski, One Good Turn. A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw, Harper Flamingo Canada, Toronto, 2000, ISBN us.
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We like power as much as the next guy. But the bigger and stronger the tool, the heavier and more expensive it is. That's why a full-on drill isn't always best. For many jobs — boring 1/4-in.-dia. holes and driving small screws — cordless screwdrivers (or stick drivers) are all a homeowner needs. The big news in this category is the introduction of lithium-ion batteries. Used predominantly in heavy-hitter tools of 18 volts and more, this battery chemistry is also ideal for compact products. "There's a shift to li-ion across the board," says David Boone, a battery engineer for Milwaukee Electric Tool, "because a li-ion battery can provide almost four times more energy than a NiCd battery of the same weight and volume. By combining the lighter weight with longer run time, it's a perfect application for these tools." In fact, our two favorites, the Hitachi and the Makita, are both li-ion drills. We felt that they best represent the potential in this class of tools, even when they were out-powered by their much larger NiCd competitors, the Ridgid and the DeWalt. In all, we tested nine stick drivers by drilling holes and driving a few thousand screws. Here's what we learned.
17. RE. Best Cordless Screwdrivers. Comparison Test I went to Home DePot today and the gentleman there said they stopped making the 7.2V Rigid stick screwdriver. I told him I saw a Rigid 9.6V driver and he said he knew nothing about a 9.6V driver. Could someone tell me where to purchase one of these? 16. RE. Best Cordless Screwdrivers. Comparison Test Hitachi driver is a powerful, long lasting light screwdriver, but #15 is right. It has wiring problems that I've had to repair. Do they still sell these as I see Lowes has clearenced the ones they had. It's a shame you left the Panasonic 3.6 driver out of the test. Expensive but worth the money. The battery lasts many hours and when it does run down you can recharge in 15 minutes. It also has electronic clutch to preserve battery. Milwaukee stick drivers are junk. batteries get smoking hot in charger and chargers go bad if left unattended. You guys should do some long term testing 15. RE. Best Cordless Screwdrivers. Comparison Test I have an old Milwaukee 2.4v single speed that has lasted since the days of Builders Square. Last year I got the Hitachi and it has had switch and wiring problems. I took it in for repair and it still doesn't work correctly. Most Hitachi tools seem pretty good but I would probably pass on this one. It is great when it works though. 14. RE. Best Cordless Screwdrivers. Comparison Test I have owned the Hitachi DB3DL and was quite happy with it until the gears stripped out while in full torque mode. Lasted about 1 Year. 13. RE. Best Cordless Screwdrivers. Comparison Test Have used a Brite Driver every day for over 3 years, easily the best screwdriver for my job (computer repair). Obviously it is not for heavier work but for lots of light use it rocks. This is a great unit it's size makes it small enough for working inside cases and I will and have reccommended it to feloow techs. 12. RE. Best Cordless Screwdrivers. Comparison Test I'm sorry that you did test the new Panasonic li-ion coadless screwdriver. I have had their 2.4v. model for 18 years and use it nearly everyday. I also have their 3.6v. model. Both have been very ruggedand great performers and the drive gears are metal. And they are both still available. 11. RE. Best Cordless Screwdrivers. Comparison Test I'm sorry to see your rating for the Hitachi screw driver. I own one of these and it is junk! There is no lockup in the stopped position, making it hard to loosen a screw or finish tightening it. All so I think that you will find tha tthe gears in the drive are possibly made of plastic. I use the screw drivers for home electronics service whichnis really not heavy duty, but already the drive it skipping when you have a screw that it tight to drive, no matter where the torque is set. Really not worth the money. 10. RE. Best Cordless Screwdrivers. Comparison Test I don't own this screwdriver. I looked at it in Home Depot and saw that it has no torque adjustment, which makes itr dangerous for working with wood and plastics or small items. It is too easy to strip out the material you are screwing together. 9. RE. Best Cordless Screwdrivers. Comparison Test The Hitachi DB3DL has a problem with the motor migrating out of LOW speed that causes it to grind and slip. I have owned two and loved them but they need to fix the problem. 8. RE. Best Cordless Screwdrivers. Comparison Test Nearly impossible to use for any fine work. RPMs way too fast, uncontrollable. If you really want to gouge up expensive wood, buy this. For the high cost of this unit I expected better performance. If I wanted a drywall gun I would have bought one. This is supposed to be a SCREWDRIVER. 7. RE. Best Cordless Screwdrivers. Comparison Test Website. www. safway. com Just bought the RIGID combo pack. Best money dollar for dollar, no comparison, buy now!!!! 6. RE. Best Cordless Screwdrivers. Comparison Test I chose the Bosch. It is heavy, but much lighter than using a driver drill. The speed/clutch control is fantastic and the battery life is terrific. 5. RE. Best Cordless Screwdrivers. Comparison Test Good article, cannot find the product to buy for my husband. Any suggestions? 4. RE. Best Cordless Screwdrivers. Comparison Test Thank you for the comparison, I was going to get a dewalt but now I see that rigid produces more production 3. RE. Best Cordless Screwdrivers. Comparison Test I enjoyed your article on cordless screw drivers. I am an avid "do it yourselfer" and had mentioned to my father that I would like a cordless screwdriver to compliment my heavy duty cordless drill. After reading your article, I was sold on the craftsman 4volt Lith-Ion driver. My father tried to locate it as a suprise this Christmas and was not able to find it. I have searched the Sears/Craftsman site and stores with out luck. Would you please email me the product code for the Driver you used in you comparison? Is it possible that the tool has been discontinued? Thank you. Sincerely, Marc Scimone 2. RE. Best Cordless Screwdrivers. Comparison Test I agree I just recently have switched over all of my power tools from dewalt to makita because of their new li-ion because of the power to weight ratio. Anyone looking for some dewalt tools to buy?.) 1. RE. Best Cordless Screwdrivers. Comparison Test Excellent product
Jon Raynor added this comment to my previous post about keeping up with the pace of change in software development. The IT field is basically a quagmire. It's better to accept that fact right away or move on to a different field. I guess someday I wish for Utopia where I won't be obsoleted when I get out of bed each and every morning. The industry needs to stop running around like a chicken with its head cut off trying to find the next big thing. The tools constantly change, but yet they do the same thing, create code to run on machines. First we get a screwdriver and learn how to use it. Then out comes the newdriver, different than the screwdriver, but does the same thing. Then out comes the phewdriver which is totally different than the screw and new driver but performs the same function of both previous tools. It's an interesting observation. I'm far from a handyman, but even I own many different screwdrivers. different sizes, different tips, different lengths. They're all performing the same job-- screwing*-- but each one is uniquely useful in the right scenario. I'd hate to throw out all the screwdrivers I own and opt for a one-size-fits-all approach. Sure, I may choose the standard screwdriver 90 percent of the time, but what about that other ten percent? So a case can be made for having multiple languages and multiple tools, redundancies and all. However, software developers are awfully eager to throw out existing tools for new ones. Unfortunately, these decisions are often based on myth and wishful thinking, and the decisions are typically made in favor of whatever the hot new thing of the moment is. Here are two mistakes that I see a lot. 1. Let's buy this whiz-bang power screwdriver that will double our productivity. A silver bullet brand screwdriver, if you will. Just replace the word "Ada" with "Ruby", below. One of the most touted recent developments is Ada, a general-purpose high-level language of the 1980's. Ada not only reflects evolutionary improvements in language concepts, but indeed embodies features to encourage modern design and modularization. Perhaps the Ada philosophy is more of an advance than the Ada language, for it is the philosophy of modularization, of abstract data types, of hierarchical structuring. Ada is over-rich, a natural result of the process by which requirements were laid on its design. That is not fatal, for subsetted working vocabularies can solve the learning problem, and hardware advances will give us the cheap MIPS to pay for the compiling costs. Advancing the structuring of software systems is indeed a very good use for the increased MIPS our dollars will buy. Operating systems, loudly decried in the 1960's for their memory and cycle costs, have proved to be an excellent form in which to use some of the MIPS and cheap memory bytes of the past hardware surge. Nevertheless, Ada will not prove to be the silver bullet that slays the software productivity monster. It is, after all, just another high-level language, and the biggest payoff from such languages came from the first transition -- the transition up from the accidental complexities of the machine into the more abstract statement of step-by-step solutions. Once those accidents have been removed, the remaining ones will be smaller, and the payoff from their removal will surely be less. I predict that a decade from now, when the effectiveness of Ada is assessed, it will be seen to have made a substantial difference, but not because of any particular language feature, nor indeed because of all of them combined. Neither will the new Ada environments prove to be the cause of the improvements. Ada's greatest contribution will be that switching to it occasioned training programmers in modern software-design techniques. 2. This screwdriver is for amateurs and hacks. We should buy a newer, more professional screwdriver. David Megginson notes the self-perpetuating cycle of successful programming languages.
It's OK to add a new screwdriver to your toolkit every few years. But make sure you're adding it for the right reasons. * Yes, it's still funny.
I think it becomes clearer to think of a programming language as a set of screwdrivers rather than making the each-programming-language = a-single-type-of-screwdriver analogy. Because certainly many programming languages utilize that standard, multi-purpose flat-head, but some add unique, niche-type screwdrivers, etc. Otherwise, I agree. It gets very tiring trying to stay abreast of things. Maybe for the whiz-bang uber-programmers it's no problem, but for some of us(i. e. me), it's hard to maintain, muchless, excel. There's just too much, even if you're trying to specialize. Kenneth
Something is not right here.. Windows = operating systems you can open and close to get air Apple = Something fresh and healthy to eat whiz-bang power screwdriver = ruby paint can = development instructions hammer and nails = MS .Net ? .. ehh I dont get it Jeff, are you the keymaker?.)
Actually, the Robertson is a better screwdriver. Canadian, too. language development was quite stable for a long time, the COBOL years. one learned a bit of syntax for a few months at some store-front programming school (or the US Armed Forces), then spent years churning out the same stuff for a particular industry. no CS degree, or even 5 minutes in a college. the methods of AutoCoder, FlowMatic, and COBOL from the 1950s and 1960s live on today. and in the enterprise world, there is a good deal of effort to move all that "software investment" to microprocessors and linux. and, there really should be a 3). hordes of wanna be Elite Programmers spewing out silly procedural code wrapped in OO syntax. aka Apache. and these are the truly evil ones, since they generate so much noise that folks just start going along. in economics there is Gresham's Law. bad money drives out good. the same can be said of languages.
If you just had screwdrivers in your toolbox, as a handyman, your screwed. You definately need a nice toolset.screwdriver (.net), plier (java), hacksaw (scripting), and hammers (Oracle, SQL Server) to excel at programming. I just don't like how I have to learn (really forced to) a new screwdriver, pliers, etc. every year. My old one that is paint covered and slightly rusty still turns screws just fine. I also agree that I'd rather have a power screw gun over a screwdriver any day, so in that respect I'd prefer VB. NET over QBASIC because there really is an advantage, not perceived or hyped. Those elite programmers.hmmm, maybe not so elite after all.
I think the problem is not one of new screwdrivers, but of *interdependent* screwdrivers. If you look at C# and compare it to how I learned to program (Fortran 77, 6502 assembly and Basic), there are more differences than just syntax and memory protection. Even moving to my first professional programs, at a very fundamental level, the way I approached programming in DOS on a 386 CPU using C and assembly differs radically from how I program today. a) I have a relational database that runs independent of my code. b) I have an operating system that handles half of the infrastructure I used to code by hand. c) I have libraries that cover the other half of the infrastructure I used to code by hand. d) I have a GUI builder that makes light work of user interface layout. e) I have different paradigms (objects, distributed computing, recoverable transactions, etc.) that underly the work itself. The interesting thing isn't the toys that allow my focus be laser like on business logic, but the fact that trying revert to "the old ways" the house of cards collapses. The GUI builder relies on partial classes, inheritance and a huge library to make it work. The libraries are possible because objects made organization of complex reusable code blocks easier. The relational database exists because I can afford to burn CPU freely and it in turn relies on the operating system to provide a stable platform to ignore many issues that are abstracted away. What we have today is built atop the structure that each prior platform gave us. In most cases, the old platforms don't entirely vanish, but instead act as supports for the new platform until the new platform stable enough to succeed. NTKERNEL still has assembly at the core, and C code around it. Windows is still C with C++. Many applications today are written in higher level languages, but they still require that C/C++ underpinning. Back on topic, the point is not only we need to acquire and learn new screwdrivers, but those screwdrivers are interdependent in ways that mean you are going to eventually drag the entire infrastructure in a given direction. By using .NET 2.0, I found myself upgrading to the new application blocks, a new version of my object relational mapping tool and SQL 2005 to get the full benefits of the new platform. I didn't upgrade my screwdriver, I upgraded my toolbox. As for Ruby, it is an interesting language which has much to commend itself. Likewisem, Rails does much to place the programmer at a higher level of abstraction when dealing with a specific application type (the data driven web app). However, because it is being built "alongside" the powerhouse application stacks I have to wonder about its long term success. Ruby on Rails has to maintain the entire stack above the OS/Web Server level as well as providing a library, which as it grows may be the undoing simply because of the overhead.
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Pros. They are really good for Nintendo DS case replacement. They do the job well. They even are magnetic so screws dont get lost easily. Cons. Well for tri-wing the only use is Nintendo game console case replacing so it's not very usefull.(but still it's really good for Nintendo DS case replacemnt) Other Thoughts. They are kind of small so people with big hands may have problems. If you are replacing your Nintendo DS case you will need also flat screwdriver. Bottomline. Buy them if you need them. They are the best choice for Nintendo DS case replacing.
Pros. these are great they worked a treat when i replaced my sons touchscreen in his ds lite. if i didnt buy these i would have been lost. the price is great too. Cons. nice and cheap and u can tell by the finish on the plastic handel but what do you expect for something so cheap but hey it did the job i got it for so why am i complaining???? Other Thoughts. done the job i got it for and that's all that matters us. Bottomline. anyway buy them u cant go wrong with the price us. i dont know what else to say except if u have to take ur ds apart and u dont have pricision screwdrivers then just get these ones
A screwdriver is a tool that uses the priniciples of simple machines (in this case, the Wheel and Axle) to enable one to apply enough torque to a screw to enable you to rotate it despite significant friction. The Phillips screwdriver was invented by Henry Phillips, in Portland, Oregon in the early 1930s. He was looking for a screw that could be turned with more torque than a flat-head screw without slipping, while still being turnable with automated equipment. His solution was to used a cross-slotted head instead of the single slot of usual screws. He patented his invention on 1 July 1936, and was assigned patent number 2,046,343 for the screw head and 2,046,838 for the screwdriver. Researchers wanting more information may also want to look at US Patents 2,046,837 and 2,046,840 for other information. His design was not well accepted at first. A competing design, the Robertson Screwdriver, used a square socket that could be fastened faster and tighter. But the auto industry preferred the Phillips design precisely because of these shortcomings -- The automated screwdrivers on factory lines popped out of the screw's recesses more easily, thus preventing over-torquing. Cadillac was the first to began using these screws in 1936. By 1949, the Philips Screwdriver had become so common, that Henry was stripped of his patent. Henry himself died in 1958 at the age of 68. The Philips screwdriver is enough of a story to earn an chapter in Witold Rybczynski's "One Good Turn. A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw" You can also find a reference in Laura Lee's "The Name's Familiar", though the dates in her writeup are horribly wrong. Finally, the dates are more reasonable in About. com's writeup on the phillips screwdriver, entitled "Fasteners from Hell?". As always, the Delphion patent database is also very useful. Thanks to Gritchka, who made me chase down the truth about the dates and times. My quick research said that the screwdriver was patented in 1938, then stripped in 1919. Furthermore, Henry Phillips apparently died in both 1958 and 1988 at the age of 68. Kinda scary how typos can become facts!
Phillips head screwdrivers are one of the two most common screwdriver varieties, along with the flat head screwdriver. Phillips head screws and their screwdrivers attach via a cross-shaped slot. The slot is deeper in the center than at the edges. This key feature is what makes the Phillips head screwdriver so different than other screwdrivers. If you ever stripped a Phillips head screw accidentally because you torqued a screw too tight, it's not your fault! It's designed to do that! Phillips head screwdrivers were developed during the development of aluminum-skinned airplanes. When workers used power screwdrivers using previous screw-screwdriver interface designs, all too often the powerful screwdrivers over-torqued the screw, leading to damage of very expensive airplane parts. The Phillips head screwdriver, however, made it difficult to over-torque, as additional torque tended to pull the screwdriver out of the screw slot. This very same design feature is not desirable for the other 99% of the uses for screws. That's why, even after 200 years of using screws to hold things together, people come up with new, better screw-screwdriver interface designs (Torx, etc.).
Jon Raynor added this comment to my previous post about keeping up with the pace of change in software development. The IT field is basically a quagmire. It's better to accept that fact right away or move on to a different field. I guess someday I wish for Utopia where I won't be obsoleted when I get out of bed each and every morning. The industry needs to stop running around like a chicken with its head cut off trying to find the next big thing. The tools constantly change, but yet they do the same thing, create code to run on machines. First we get a screwdriver and learn how to use it. Then out comes the newdriver, different than the screwdriver, but does the same thing. Then out comes the phewdriver which is totally different than the screw and new driver but performs the same function of both previous tools. It's an interesting observation. I'm far from a handyman, but even I own many different screwdrivers. different sizes, different tips, different lengths. They're all performing the same job-- screwing*-- but each one is uniquely useful in the right scenario. I'd hate to throw out all the screwdrivers I own and opt for a one-size-fits-all approach. Sure, I may choose the standard screwdriver 90 percent of the time, but what about that other ten percent? So a case can be made for having multiple languages and multiple tools, redundancies and all. However, software developers are awfully eager to throw out existing tools for new ones. Unfortunately, these decisions are often based on myth and wishful thinking, and the decisions are typically made in favor of whatever the hot new thing of the moment is. Here are two mistakes that I see a lot. 1. Let's buy this whiz-bang power screwdriver that will double our productivity. A silver bullet brand screwdriver, if you will. Just replace the word "Ada" with "Ruby", below. One of the most touted recent developments is Ada, a general-purpose high-level language of the 1980's. Ada not only reflects evolutionary improvements in language concepts, but indeed embodies features to encourage modern design and modularization. Perhaps the Ada philosophy is more of an advance than the Ada language, for it is the philosophy of modularization, of abstract data types, of hierarchical structuring. Ada is over-rich, a natural result of the process by which requirements were laid on its design. That is not fatal, for subsetted working vocabularies can solve the learning problem, and hardware advances will give us the cheap MIPS to pay for the compiling costs. Advancing the structuring of software systems is indeed a very good use for the increased MIPS our dollars will buy. Operating systems, loudly decried in the 1960's for their memory and cycle costs, have proved to be an excellent form in which to use some of the MIPS and cheap memory bytes of the past hardware surge. Nevertheless, Ada will not prove to be the silver bullet that slays the software productivity monster. It is, after all, just another high-level language, and the biggest payoff from such languages came from the first transition -- the transition up from the accidental complexities of the machine into the more abstract statement of step-by-step solutions. Once those accidents have been removed, the remaining ones will be smaller, and the payoff from their removal will surely be less. I predict that a decade from now, when the effectiveness of Ada is assessed, it will be seen to have made a substantial difference, but not because of any particular language feature, nor indeed because of all of them combined. Neither will the new Ada environments prove to be the cause of the improvements. Ada's greatest contribution will be that switching to it occasioned training programmers in modern software-design techniques. 2. This screwdriver is for amateurs and hacks. We should buy a newer, more professional screwdriver. David Megginson notes the self-perpetuating cycle of successful programming languages.
It's OK to add a new screwdriver to your toolkit every few years. But make sure you're adding it for the right reasons. * Yes, it's still funny.
I think it becomes clearer to think of a programming language as a set of screwdrivers rather than making the each-programming-language = a-single-type-of-screwdriver analogy. Because certainly many programming languages utilize that standard, multi-purpose flat-head, but some add unique, niche-type screwdrivers, etc. Otherwise, I agree. It gets very tiring trying to stay abreast of things. Maybe for the whiz-bang uber-programmers it's no problem, but for some of us(i. e. me), it's hard to maintain, muchless, excel. There's just too much, even if you're trying to specialize. Kenneth
Something is not right here.. Windows = operating systems you can open and close to get air Apple = Something fresh and healthy to eat whiz-bang power screwdriver = ruby paint can = development instructions hammer and nails = MS .Net ? .. ehh I dont get it Jeff, are you the keymaker?.)
Actually, the Robertson is a better screwdriver. Canadian, too. language development was quite stable for a long time, the COBOL years. one learned a bit of syntax for a few months at some store-front programming school (or the US Armed Forces), then spent years churning out the same stuff for a particular industry. no CS degree, or even 5 minutes in a college. the methods of AutoCoder, FlowMatic, and COBOL from the 1950s and 1960s live on today. and in the enterprise world, there is a good deal of effort to move all that "software investment" to microprocessors and linux. and, there really should be a 3). hordes of wanna be Elite Programmers spewing out silly procedural code wrapped in OO syntax. aka Apache. and these are the truly evil ones, since they generate so much noise that folks just start going along. in economics there is Gresham's Law. bad money drives out good. the same can be said of languages.
If you just had screwdrivers in your toolbox, as a handyman, your screwed. You definately need a nice toolset.screwdriver (.net), plier (java), hacksaw (scripting), and hammers (Oracle, SQL Server) to excel at programming. I just don't like how I have to learn (really forced to) a new screwdriver, pliers, etc. every year. My old one that is paint covered and slightly rusty still turns screws just fine. I also agree that I'd rather have a power screw gun over a screwdriver any day, so in that respect I'd prefer VB. NET over QBASIC because there really is an advantage, not perceived or hyped. Those elite programmers.hmmm, maybe not so elite after all.
I think the problem is not one of new screwdrivers, but of *interdependent* screwdrivers. If you look at C# and compare it to how I learned to program (Fortran 77, 6502 assembly and Basic), there are more differences than just syntax and memory protection. Even moving to my first professional programs, at a very fundamental level, the way I approached programming in DOS on a 386 CPU using C and assembly differs radically from how I program today. a) I have a relational database that runs independent of my code. b) I have an operating system that handles half of the infrastructure I used to code by hand. c) I have libraries that cover the other half of the infrastructure I used to code by hand. d) I have a GUI builder that makes light work of user interface layout. e) I have different paradigms (objects, distributed computing, recoverable transactions, etc.) that underly the work itself. The interesting thing isn't the toys that allow my focus be laser like on business logic, but the fact that trying revert to "the old ways" the house of cards collapses. The GUI builder relies on partial classes, inheritance and a huge library to make it work. The libraries are possible because objects made organization of complex reusable code blocks easier. The relational database exists because I can afford to burn CPU freely and it in turn relies on the operating system to provide a stable platform to ignore many issues that are abstracted away. What we have today is built atop the structure that each prior platform gave us. In most cases, the old platforms don't entirely vanish, but instead act as supports for the new platform until the new platform stable enough to succeed. NTKERNEL still has assembly at the core, and C code around it. Windows is still C with C++. Many applications today are written in higher level languages, but they still require that C/C++ underpinning. Back on topic, the point is not only we need to acquire and learn new screwdrivers, but those screwdrivers are interdependent in ways that mean you are going to eventually drag the entire infrastructure in a given direction. By using .NET 2.0, I found myself upgrading to the new application blocks, a new version of my object relational mapping tool and SQL 2005 to get the full benefits of the new platform. I didn't upgrade my screwdriver, I upgraded my toolbox. As for Ruby, it is an interesting language which has much to commend itself. Likewisem, Rails does much to place the programmer at a higher level of abstraction when dealing with a specific application type (the data driven web app). However, because it is being built "alongside" the powerhouse application stacks I have to wonder about its long term success. Ruby on Rails has to maintain the entire stack above the OS/Web Server level as well as providing a library, which as it grows may be the undoing simply because of the overhead.
BackgroundIt would be very difficult to find an American household that did not have at least one screwdriver. Perhaps the most ubiquitous of hand tools, the screwdriver has a long genealogy, the result of a complicated manufacturing process. Archimedes is considered to have invented the screw in the third century
Large wooden screws were used in presses for producing wine and olive oil, and were turned with spikes stuck into or through a handle that resembled a modern corkscrew used for opening wine bottles, although larger. These were made of wood with a flat rather than a pointed end, and a container to hold the material being pressed. Metal screws and nuts seem to have been used as fasteners in the fifteenth century, although the heads of these screws were turned with a wrench and not a screwdriver—.the screw heads were either square or hexagonal. Screws with slots in their heads were found in armor in the following century, although the design of the tool used to work the screws, the screwdriver, is unknown. The modern screwdriver descends directly from a flat-bladed bit used in a carpenter'.s brace circa 1750. Woodworkers were using hand screwdrivers in the early 1800s, and they became more common after 1850, when machines made the automatic production of screws possible. These early screwdrivers were flat throughout the length of their shaft. the current design of a rounded bar that is flattened or shaped only at the working end makes the tool much stronger and takes advantage of the round wire used in its manufacture. The oldest and most common type of screwdriver is the slotted screwdriver, which fits a screw with a single slot in the head. There are perhaps thirty different types of screwdrivers available today in a variety of sizes, all with different purposes and all designed to fit into special screws. The second most widely used screwdriver, the ".Phillips,". was invented in the late 1920s by Henry Phillips. Soon after its introduction, the tool posed a dilemma for its user—.the head of the driver pulls away from the screw as it is fastened, or ".cam-out,". leading to stripped screw heads and assemblies that are difficult to take apart. However, cam-out became a virtue. the screws were meant to be driven with a power tool, and the assembler would know that the screw was completely driven when his power tool slid out of the screw head. A screw head that could accept the greater torque (turning power) of a power tool was an advantage over hand-turned, slotted screw heads. Today, manufacturers are producing or gearing up production of Phillips screwdrivers that eliminate cam-out. Possible solutions (although details of some systems are company secrets) focus on the angle of the edges that fit into the Phillips screw, or using a better gripping material to coat or plate the screwdriver tip. The torx screwdriver, widely used for automobile repair and other applications, was designed to take the torque that a Phillips screw can while eliminating the cam-out problem. It has six edges in a star pattern on its flat point, and fits flat into the screw head. It is not unusual to find torx drivers sold in a set with slotted and Phillips screwdrivers. Other types of screwdrivers have been designed for special uses, and a well-stocked hardware store will have slotted, Phillips, torx, Robertson (a square shaft that fits into a corresponding square cut out in the head of the screw), and other more obscure types of screwdrivers. Some screwdrivers have not found a ready market, such as one that was designed to fit into special screws that have slots both on the top of the screw and on the side of the screw head, with corresponding grippers on the point of the screwdriver. There are so many screwdrivers and types of screws available that even a high quality of design innovation is overcome by consumer resistance to purchasing new types of screwdrivers and corresponding screws. Raw MaterialsThe raw materials for most screwdrivers are very basic. steel wire for the bar and plastic (usually cellulose acetate) for the handle. In addition, the steel tips are generally plated with nickel or chromium. The ManufacturingProcessMaking a flat-tip or slotted screwdriver is not very different than making any other configuration. Variations between a flat-tip and a Phillips screwdriver will be discussed later in this entry. Making the steel bar
Next, the wire is straightened by a string forge and then transferred to a cold forming press, which cuts the wire to the appropriate length and forms the tip of the screwdriver and the ".wings". that will fit into the handle. These wings can be seen through a clear or semi-clear plastic handle. The newly formed ".bar". (the actual screwdriver without Ats handle) is then heat treated in an in-line furnace at approximately 1,555 degrees Fahrenheit (846 degrees Celsius). This is a continuous flow process, and as the bars come through the furnace they fall into an oil quench for cooling. The bars are then placed in a draw back oven (450 to 500 degrees Fahrenheit or 232 to 259 degrees Celsius) and baked to a specified hardness.
Consumer model screwdrivers are nickel-plated—.covered with a protective coating of nickel—.before assembly. If the screwdriver is designated for professional use, it is transferred to a hand-grinding department, where the tip is ground to size. The shank is chemically milled and then polished. The screwdriver then goes to a nickel flash bath and is electrically chrome plated.
After the cold forming press (step #3 above) cuts the wire, the screwdriver is sent to a ".swage and grind". operation, where dies form blades for the tip from the heated wire. The tool is then ground and the wings are formed.
If a professional model is being produced, the bar goes to a tipping operation (an automatic tipping machine that creates the bullet point), and then to a profilator machine (a machine that cuts a ".profile".). This latter machine cuts the four grooves or slots on the sides above the point. The wire is then winged, and heat-treated in the same way as the flat-tip screwdriver bars. Consumer model Phillips screwdrivers are nickel plated, while the professional model is polished and nickel/chrome plated.
The handles of a screwdriver are usually made of cellulose acetate. it is delivered to the factory in powder form (cellulose acetate rosin) and then mixed with a liquid plasticizer in a giant blender that holds approximately 1,000 pounds (454 kilograms) of the mixed material. If a colored handle is desired, pigments are added into the blender. The resulting paste, which has the consistency of thick cake batter, then goes to an extruder (a machine that forces a material out through an opening, the way a meat grinder forces out strings of meat), which extrudes a solid piece of cellulose acetate. The cellulose acetate is then cut into small pellets.
The method of final assembly depends on the quality of the tool being produced. Professional models are assembled individually on a horizontal assembly machine that hydraulically forces the bar into the plastic handle. The handles are branded by a hot stamp immediately before going into the assembly machine. This assembly process requires one skilled operator for each machine. Other models might be assembled on hydraulic presses, three at a time. The least expensive models are assembled six at a time on one machine and placed by robot on a skin card machine that packages the screwdrivers for mass-market sale.
Before packaging, the screwdrivers might be fitted with a special handle cover, depending on need. A rubber cap fitted over a screwdriver handle, for example, might be more comfortable for a professional using his tool five or six hours a day. A large handle with deep grooves might be ideal for some workers, while the home handyman who assembles a lamp or cabinet once every six months may not need or want to pay for the extra comfort.
Quality ControlConsumer Reports magazine found, in 1983 tests, that the type of finish had little effect on the quality of screwdrivers, although most of their tested screwdrivers were plated. Poor-quality plating, on the other hand, might indicate that not enough care was paid to the tool in the manufacturing process. Similarly, poor-quality grinding can lead to rounded edges and corners which will not be as efficient as they could be. a tip that was burned during the grinding process may not be as hard as it should be. Where To Learn MoreBooksHoffman, E. Fundamentals of Tool Design. T/C Publications, 1984.Pollack, Herman W. Tool Design. Prentice Hall, 1988.Self, Charles R. Fasten It. TAB Books, 1984.Watson, Aldren A. Hand Tools. Their Ways and Workings. Portland House, 1982.PeriodicalsBailey, Jeff. ".Does Henry Phillips, Bane of Handymen, Really Rest in Peace?". Wall Street Journal, September 15, 1988, p. 4.".Screwdrivers,". Consumer Reports. January, 1983, pp. 44-7.Kinghorn, Bob. ".The New Age of Screwdriving,". Family Handyman. October, 1989, p. 12.Pierson, John. ".Screwdriver Redesign Aims to Lock Out Slips,". Wall Street Journal. January 22, 1991, pp. 1-2.Yeaple, Frank. ".Zinc'.s Properties Enhance Hand Tool'.s Producibility,". Design News. January 22, 1990, p. 115.[Article by. Lawrence H. Berlow]
A mixed drink of orange juice and vodka served over ice. Its origins are unknown but the most popular tale is that it was named in the 1950s by American oil-rig workers stationed in the Middle East who opened and stirred cans of this mixture with their screwdrivers.
The screwdriver is a device specifically designed to insert and tighten, or to loosen and remove, screws. The screwdriver comprises a head or tip which engages with a screw, a mechanism to apply torque by rotating the tip, and some way to position and support the screwdriver. A typical hand screwdriver comprises an approximately cylindrical handle of a size and shape to be held by a human hand, and an axial shaft fixed to the handle, the tip of which is shaped to fit a particular type of screw. The handle and shaft allow the screwdriver to be positioned and supported and, when rotated, to apply torque. Screwdrivers are made in a variety of shapes, and the tip can be rotated manually or by an electric or other motor. A screw has a head with a contour such that an appropriate screwdriver tip can be engaged in it in such a way that the application of sufficient torque to the screwdriver will cause the screw to rotate.
Gunsmiths still refer to a screwdriver as a "turnscrew", under which name it is an important part of a set of pistols. The name was common in earlier centuries, used by cabinet makers and shipwrights and perhaps other trades. The Cabinet-Maker's screwdriver is one of the longest-established handle forms, somewhat oval or elipsoid in cross section. This is variously attributed to improving grip or preventing the tool rolling off the bench, but there is no reason to suppose these are not rationalisations. The shape has been popular for a couple of hundred years. It is usually associated with a plain head for slotted screws, but has been used with many head forms.
There are many types of screw heads, of which the most common are the slotted, Phillips, PoziDriv/SupaDriv (crosspoint), Robertson, TORX, and Allen (hex). Screwdrivers come in a large variety of sizes to match those of screws, from tiny jeweler's screwdrivers up. If a screwdriver that is not the right size and type for the screw is used, it is likely that the screw will be damaged in the process of tightening it. This is less important for PoziDriv and SupaDriv, which are designed specifically to be more tolerant of size mismatch. When tightening a screw with force, it is important to press the head hard into the screw, again to avoid damaging the screw.
Some manual screwdrivers have a ratchet action whereby the screwdriver blade is locked to the handle for clockwise rotation, but uncoupled for counterclockwise rotation when set for tightening screws. and vice versa for loosening. Many screwdriver designs have a handle with detachable head (the part of the screwdriver which engages with the screw), called bits as with drill bits, allowing a set of one handle and several heads to be used for a variety of screw sizes and types. This kind of design has allowed the development of electrically powered screwdrivers, which, as the name suggests, use an electric motor to rotate the bit. In such cases the terminology for power drills is used, e. g. "shank" or "collet". Some drills can also be fitted with screwdriver heads. Manual screw drivers with a spiral ratchet mechanism to turn pressure (linear motion) into rotational motion also exist, and predate electric screwdrivers. The user pushes the handle toward the workpiece, causing a pawl in a spiral groove to rotate the shank and the removable bit. The ratchet can be set to rotate left or right with each push, or can be locked so that the tool can be used like a conventional screwdriver. Once very popular, these spiral ratchet drivers, using proprietary bits, have been largely discontinued by manufacturers such as Stanley, although one can still find them at vintage tool auctions. Companies such as Lara Specialty Tools now offer a modernized version that uses standard 1/4-inch hex shank power tool bits. Since a variety of drill bits are available in this format, it allows the tool to do double duty as a push drill.
Many modern electrical appliances, if they contain screws at all, use screws with heads other than the typical slotted or Phillips styles. TORX is one such pattern that has become very widespread. The main cause of this trend is manufacturing efficiency. TORX and other types are designed so the driver will not slip out of the fastener as will a Phillips driver. (Slotted screws are rarely used in mass-produced devices, since the driver is not inherently centered on the fastener). A benefit/disadvantage of non-typical fasteners (depending on your point of view) is that it can be more difficult for users of a device to disassemble it than if more-common head types were used, but TORX and other drivers are widely available. Specialized patterns of security screws are also used, such as the Gamebit head style used in all Nintendo consoles, though drivers for most security heads are, again, readily available. While screwdrivers are designed for the above functions, they are commonly also used as improvised substitutes for pry bars, levers, and hole punches, as well as other tools. There is no such thing as a "left-handed screwdriver", as the device can easily be wielded in either hand. To be sent on an errand to find a left-handed screwdriver is often a test of stupidity, or is used as a metaphor for something useless. The term "Birmingham screwdriver" is used jokingly in the UK to denote a hammer or sledgehammer. The handle and shaft of screwdrivers have changed considerably over time. The design is influenced by both purpose and manufacturing requirements. The "Perfect Handle" screwdriver was first manufactured by HD Smith Company that operated from 1850 to 1900. Many manufacturers adopted this handle design world wide. The "Flat Bladed" screwdriver was another design composed of drop forged steel with riveted wood handles? Among slotted screwdrivers, there are a couple of major variations at the blade or bit end involving the profile of the blade as viewed face-on. The more common type is sometimes referred to as keystone, where the blade profile is slightly flared before tapering off at the end. To maximize access in space-restricted applications, the same edges for the cabinet variety, in contrast, are straight and parallel, meeting the end of the blade at a right angle.
Witold Rybczynski, One Good Turn. A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw, Harper Flamingo Canada, Toronto, 2000, ISBN us.
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No, I didn't miss it. For $0.99 I have a spark plug gapper/screwdriver. I really can't think of who I'd give the other 11 flat head screwdrivers to. Don't most things use Phillips head or need some type of security bit anyway? So I saved myself $7.50 + shipping & Handling..D
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A suspending device for screwdrivers has a suspending rod and multiple sliders. The suspending rod has two holes defined through the suspending rod respectively near two ends of the suspending rod. The sliders are slidably attached to the suspending rod. Each slider has a holder, two clamping arms and a holding bore. The clamping arms respectively extend from top edge and bottom edge of the holder and respectively engage with top edge and bottom edge of the supporting rod. The holding bore is defined through the holder to hold a shank of a screwdriver. Accordingly, the suspending device can fit with different types of screwdrivers and is versatile in use.
What is claimed is. 1. A suspending device for screwdrivers comprising. a suspending rod having a top edge, a bottom edge and two holes defined through the suspending rod respectively near two ends of the suspending rod. and multiple sliders slidably attached to the suspending rod and each having a holder having a top edge and a bottom edge. two clamping arms respectively extending from the top edge and the bottom edge of the holder and respectively engaging with the top edge and the bottom edge of the supporting rod. a holding bore defined through the holder to hold a shank of a screwdriver, defined by an inner periphery and having two slots defined in the inner periphery of the holding bore and longitudinally extending from the top edge to the bottom edge of the holder, and each slot having an opening in communication with the holding bore and facing to each other. and a suspending panel on which the suspending rod is detachably attached having at least one suspending hole defined through the suspending panel, wherein the suspending panel comprises a holding bar detachably attached to the suspending panel, corresponding to the suspending rod and comprising multiple holding recesses defined in the holding bar and corresponding respectively to the sliders on the suspending rod. and multiple tabs extending from the suspending panel between the suspending rod and the holding bar and corresponding respectively to the sliders on the suspending rod, and each tab having a fixed, non-concave end attached to the suspending panel, and a concave free end opposite to the suspending panel and adapted to hold a neck of a screwdriver. and two locking slots and two locking holes communicating respectively with the locking slots. the holding bar further has two ears extending respectively from two ends of the holding bar and extending respectively into the locking slots in the suspending panel. and two fasteners extending respectively into the locking holes and through the ears on the holding bar and the locking slots in the suspending panel to detachably attach the holding bar to the suspending panel. 2. The suspending device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the suspending rod further has multiple threaded holes. the suspending panel has multiple through holes aligning respectively with the threaded holes in the suspending rod. and multiple screws extending respectively through the through holes in the suspending panel and screwed respectively into the threaded holes in the suspending rod to detachably attach the suspending rod to the suspending panel. 3. The suspending device as claimed in claim 2, wherein the suspending rod further has two rails formed on the suspending rod in parallel. and an upper one of the clamping arms on each slider has an inverted L-shaped cross-section and a lower one of the clamping arms on each slider has an L-shaped cross-section, and a distal end of each clamping arm slidably engages with a respective one of the rails on the suspending rod.
1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a suspending device, and more particularly to a suspending device for screwdrivers and that is adjustable for different types of screwdrivers and is versatile in use. 2. Description of Related Art To support and to display screwdrivers, a conventional suspending panel is provided and substantially comprises a panel multiple clamping elements and at least one holding bar detachably attached to the panel and corresponding to the clamping elements. With the arrangement of the clamping elements and the holding bar, screwdrivers can be securely held on the panel for display, such as in a retail store. However, the clamping elements are integrally formed on the panel and are not adjustable in position, such that the conventional suspending panel cannot fit with different types of screwdrivers and is not versatile in use. Therefore, manufacturers must design and make multiple different suspending panels to fit with different types of screwdrivers, so that the cost for manufacturing the conventional suspending panel is excessively high. To overcome the shortcomings, the present invention tends to provide a suspending device to mitigate or obviate the aforementioned problems.
The main objective of the invention is to provide a suspending device for screwdrivers and that can fit with different types of screwdrivers and is versatile in use. The suspending device for screwdrivers has a suspending rod and multiple sliders. The suspending rod has two holes defined through the suspending rod respectively near two ends of the suspending rod. The sliders are slidably attached to the suspending rod. Each slider has a holder, two clamping arms and a holding bore. The clamping arms respectively extend from a top edge and a bottom edge of the holder and respectively engage with the top edge and the bottom edge of the supporting rod. The holding bore is longitudinally defined through the holder to hold a shank of a screwdriver. Other objects, advantages and novel features of the invention will become more apparent from the following detailed description when taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.
FIG. 1 is an exploded perspective view of a first embodiment of a suspending device in accordance with the present invention. FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the suspending device in FIG. 1 with multiple screwdrivers held on the suspending device. FIG. 3 is a perspective view of the suspending device in FIG. 1 showing that the holding bar is detached from the suspending panel. FIG. 4 shows operational side plan views in partial cross section of the suspending device in FIG. 1 showing the processes of detaching a screwdriver from the suspending device. FIG. 5 is a perspective view of a second embodiment of a suspending device in accordance with the present invention. and FIG. 6 shows side plan views in partial cross section of the suspending device in FIG. 5 showing the processes of detaching a screwdriver from the suspending device.
With reference to FIG. 1, a suspending device for screwdrivers in accordance with the present invention comprises a suspending rod ( 10 ), multiple sliders ( 20 ), an optional suspending panel ( 30 ) and an optional holding bar ( 40 ). The suspending rod ( 10 ) has two holes ( 11 ) defined through the suspending rod ( 10 ) and respectively near two ends of the suspending rod ( 10 ). Two rails ( 12 ) are formed on the suspending rod ( 10 ) in parallel. The sliders ( 20 ) are slidably attached to the suspending rod ( 10 ) and each has a holder ( 21 ), two clamping arms ( 22 ) and a holding bore ( 211 ). The clamping arms ( 22 ) respectively extend from top edge and bottom edge of the holder ( 21 ) and respectively engage with top edge and bottom edge of the supporting rod ( 10 ). In an optional embodiment, the clamping arms ( 22 ) are formed as an upper one and a lower one with the latter having an L-shaped cross-section and the former having an inverted L-shaped cross section, and a distal end of each arm ( 22 ) slidably engages with the respective rail ( 12 ) of the suspending rod ( 10 ). The holding bore ( 211 ) is uprightly defined through the holder ( 21 ) to hold a shank ( 53 ) of a screwdriver ( 50 ). In addition, the holding bore ( 211 ) in each slider ( 20 ) may be elongated and have an inner surface and two slots ( 212 ) defined in the inner surface of a periphery defining the holding bore ( 211 ) and longitudinally extending from the top edge to the bottom edge of the holder, and each slot ( 212 ) having an opening facing to each other. Accordingly, multiple screwdrivers ( 50 ) can be inserted respectively into the holding bores ( 211 ) in the sliders ( 20 ) to make the screwdrivers ( 50 ) held on the suspending rod ( 10 ). The slots ( 212 ) in each slider ( 20 ) can provide a guide effect to the tip of the corresponding screwdriver ( 50 ). With the shape of the elongated holding bores ( 211 ), the shanks of the screwdrivers ( 50 ) can be securely held. With the arrangement of the holes ( 11 ) in the suspending rod ( 10 ), the suspending rod ( 10 ) with the sliders ( 20 ) and the screwdriver ( 50 ) can be hung on a wall or a display panel with hangers, for example hooks. Because the sliders ( 20 ) are slidable relative to the suspending rod ( 10 ), the distance between adjacent sliders ( 20 ) is adjustable to fit with different types of screwdrivers ( 50 ). Therefore, the use of the suspending device in accordance with the present invention is convenient and versatile. With further reference to FIG. 2, the suspending panel ( 30 ) on which the suspending rod ( 10 ) is detachably attached has at least one suspending top hole ( 31 ) defined through the suspending panel ( 30 ). With the suspending panel ( 30 ), the suspending rod ( 10 ) with the sliders ( 20 ) and screwdrivers ( 50 ) can be hung on a wall or a display panel with hangers hooked onto the suspending top holes ( 31 ). To attach the suspending rod ( 10 ) onto the suspending panel ( 30 ), the suspending rod ( 10 ) has multiple threaded holes ( 13 ), and the suspending panel ( 30 ) has multiple through holes ( 32 ) aligning respectively with the threaded holes ( 13 ) in the suspending rod ( 10 ). Multiple screws ( 33 ) extend respectively through the through holes ( 32 ) in the suspending panel ( 30 ) and are screwed respectively into the threaded holes ( 13 ) in the suspending rod ( 10 ) to detachably attach the suspending rod ( 10 ) to the suspending panel ( 30 ). In addition, the suspending panel ( 30 ) further has multiple tabs ( 34 ) extending from the suspending panel ( 30 ), corresponding respectively to the sliders ( 20 ) on the suspending rod ( 10 ) and adapted to abut necks ( 52 ) of screwdrivers ( 50 ). In a preferred embodiment, each tab ( 34 ) has a concave free end ( 341 ) to fit with the neck ( 52 ) of the corresponding screwdriver ( 50 ). The tabs ( 34 ) can provide a further supporting effect to the screwdrivers ( 50 ). The holding bar ( 40 ) is detachably attached to the suspending panel ( 30 ) above the tabs ( 34 ), corresponds to the suspending rod ( 10 ) and comprises multiple holding recesses ( 42 ). The holding recesses ( 42 ) are defined in the holding bar ( 40 ) and correspond respectively to the sliders ( 20 ) on the suspending rod ( 10 ) to hold the grips ( 51 ) of the screwdrivers ( 50 ). To detachably attach the holding bar ( 40 ) to the suspending panel ( 30 ), the suspending panel ( 30 ) has two locking slots ( 35 ) and two locking holes ( 351 ) communicating respectively with the locking slots ( 35 ). The holding bar ( 40 ) has two ears ( 41 ) longitudinally extending from two ends of the holding bar ( 40 ) and extending respectively into the locking slots ( 35 ) in the suspending panel ( 30 ). Each ear ( 41 ) has a locking hole ( 411 ) aligning with one of the locking holes ( 351 ) in the suspending panel ( 30 ) when the ear ( 41 ) is inserted into the corresponding locking slot ( 35 ). Two fasteners ( 43 ) extend respectively into the locking holes ( 351 ) in the suspending panel ( 30 ) and through locking holes ( 411 ) in the ears ( 41 ) and the locking slots ( 35 ) in the suspending panel ( 30 ) to attach the holding bar ( 40 ) to the suspending panel ( 30 ). With the arrangement of the holding bar ( 40 ), the screwdrivers ( 50 ) can be securely held on the suspending device, and the screwdrivers ( 50 ) will not be detached from the suspending rod ( 10 ) until the holding bar ( 40 ) is removed from the suspending panel ( 30 ) so that a thief-proof effect is provided. To detach the screwdrivers ( 50 ) from the suspending device for use, with further reference to FIG. 4, the fasteners ( 43 ) are firstly released from the suspending panel ( 30 ) so that the holding bar ( 40 ) can be removed from the suspending panel ( 30 ). Consequently, the screwdrivers ( 50 ) can be taken out from the holding bores ( 211 ) in the sliders ( 20 ) for use. Moreover, the suspending rod ( 10 ) with the sliders ( 20 ) can be detached from the suspending panel ( 30 ) and hung on a wall or a display panel individually after unscrewing the screws ( 33 ) from the threaded holes ( 13 ) in the suspending rod ( 10 ). With reference to FIGS. 5 and 6, the suspending panel ( 30 ′) may have multiple holding caps ( 36 ) extending from the suspending panel ( 30 ′) at a location above the holding bar ( 40 ), corresponding respectively to the sliders ( 20 ) on the suspending rod ( 10 ) and adapted to abut grips ( 61 ) of screwdrivers ( 60 ). Each holding cap ( 36 ) has a cavity defined in the bottom of the cap ( 36 ) to hold the end of the grip ( 61 ) of the corresponding screwdriver ( 60 ) inside. The holding caps ( 36 ) can be located at different heights relative to the holding bar ( 40 ) to respectively hold the grips ( 61 ) of different types of screwdrivers ( 60 ). The holding bores ( 211 ′) in holders ( 21 ′) of the sliders ( 20 ′) may be round holes. With the arrangement of the holding caps ( 36 ), the screwdrivers ( 60 ) will not be removable from the suspending device until the holding bar ( 40 ) is detached from the suspending panel ( 30 ′), such that a thief-proof effect is provided. To take the screwdrivers ( 60 ) out for use from the suspending device, the holding bar ( 40 ) is firstly removed from the suspending panel ( 30 ′) by means of releasing the fasteners ( 43 ). The suspending panel ( 30 ′) is slightly bent to define a gap between each holding cap ( 36 ) and the corresponding screwdriver ( 60 ), such that the screwdrivers ( 60 ) can be taken out from the holding bores ( 211 ′) in the sliders ( 20 ′). With such a suspending device in accordance with the present invention, the manufacturer can change the amount of sliders ( 20, 20 ′) mounted on the suspending rod ( 10 ) and the distance between adjacent sliders ( 20, 20 ′) to fit with different type of screwdrivers ( 50, 60 ). Therefore, to manufacture different suspending devices for different types of screwdrivers ( 50, 60 ) is easy and convenient, and the cost for manufacturing suspending devices is lowered relative to the prior art. Even though numerous characteristics and advantages of the present invention have been set forth in the foregoing description, together with details of the structure and function of the invention, the disclosure is illustrative only, and changes may be made in detail, especially in matters of shape, size, and arrangement of parts within the principles of the invention to the full extent indicated by the broad general meaning of the terms in which the appended claims are expressed.
WASHINGTON, D. C. - In cooperation with the U. S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), DeWalt Industrial Tool Co., of Hampstead, Md., is recalling to repair about 660,000 corded electric screwdrivers. The screwdrivers' wiring design can result in the user being shocked. DeWalt has received reports of 40 of these screwdrivers causing shocks during use. There have been three reports of injuries resulting from these shocks. The screwdrivers were sold under the DeWalt, GRABBER, and Black & Decker Industry & Construction brandnames. The DeWalt, model numbers are DW251, DW252, DW257, DW260K, DW265, DW266, DW267, DW268, DW268G, DW269, DW272, DW274, DW us., DW274W, DW275QD (Quik Drive ), DW276, DW281, DW282 and DW284. The GRABBER model numbers are 4060 and 4063. The Black & Decker Industry & Construction model numbers are 2121, 2125 and 2141. Only numeric date codes from 9601 to 9833 are included in this recall. The date code is followed by various letters. Those date codes ending with an "R" have already been repaired. The model number and date code are located on the name plate, which is on the right hand side of the screwdriver when viewed from the back. The DeWalt and Quik Drive corded screwdrivers have a yellow housing with black accents. The GRABBER models have a black housing. The Black & Decker Industry & Construction models have a charcoal-gray housing. Major chain home centers and hardware stores, as well as local hardware stores, nationwide sold these screwdrivers from November 1996 through September 1998 for about $69 to $169, depending on the model. Consumers should stop using these screwdrivers immediately and take them to the nearest DeWalt /Black & Decker service center for a free repair. To find the nearest service center or for more information, consumers should call DeWalt toll-free at (800) us. between 8 a. m and 4.30 p. m. EST Monday through Friday. No cordless screwdrivers are affected by this recall.
Specific Safety Rules for Power Screwdrivers Summary. Learn specific safety rules for power screwdrivers in this free video. Views. 295 Tags. construction, power tools, tool, tools Source. Expert Village
Hi! This is Jon on behalf of expertvillage. com. In this video clip I’ll be talking about specific safety rules in relation to power screwdrivers. If you happen to be drilling or screwing into an area where there could potentially be live wires, you want to make sure that you’re gripping the tool by the insulated surfaces. The tool can be loud enough where if you use it for a long period of time it could cause hearing loss, so you want to make sure to have a pair of ear protection as well. You want to make sure to carry your tool by the handle. carrying it by the cord can cause it to get damaged. Your cord is the lifeline of the tool, so you want to make sure to take extra care to protect it. In addition, if you are drilling or screwing in an environment that could get a bit dusty, you’ll want to make sure to wear a mask.
SCREWDRIVERS & HEX KEYS Proto's broad line of professional screwdrivers offers a variety of shapes, sizes, and tips configurations to handle almost any screw turning operation. Screwdrivers and available in Slotted, Cabinet, TorxŽ, and PhillipsŽ tip configurations. Both round and square shanks are offered. A selection of sets and screwdrivers accessories are also available. PROTO SCREWDRIVERS All screwdrivers have an alloy steel shank, heat-treated the entire length to provide strength against twisting action. Tips are precision machined to ensure proper fit. Tip edges are ground to a precise width and thickness to properly fit the screw slot. Standard and cabinet tips are cross ground for consistent fit. Super Proto Screwdrivers have a innovative tri-lobed, non-slip handle made from bi-material that ensures a secure grip. Proto Insulated Screwdrivers are tested to 10,000 Volts, rated to 1000V AC / 1500V DC. Molded handles are wear resistant, in safety orange for quick identification. PROTO NUT DRIVERS Proto nut drivers are available in standard and hollow shaft designs. The hex opening is precision formed for proper fastener fit. Chrome plated shanks provide corrosion protection. Shanks are heat-treated for strength and durability. HEX KEYS Available in Proto T-Handle, L Handle and Folding styles with hex, ball and TorxŽ tips. Proto hex keys are precision formed ensuring a secure fastener fit. All shafts are heat treated for durability and receive a rust resistant black oxide finish. A selection of sets and screwdrivers accessories are also available. BITS
Hammers aren't the only hand tool you should have handy. Screwdrivers of all sizes and head shapes should be included in your tool box. Hand tools, mostly wrenches and screwdrivers, make great starter tool sets for teenagers and those of you who are just starting out. Hand tools will be perfect for most home projects. Remember, you won't always need a lot of power for everyday tasks.
Screwdrivers are survivors. Rather than face extinction by the superior screw-torquing thrust of power tools, they've adapted and evolved into versions that are more useful than ever. This bit-packing, auto-loading screwdriver works like a mix between a multicolor ballpoint pen and a pump-action shotgun. Extend the handle (inset A), align the desired bit with an arrow, and re-engage the handle to load. It switches bits with unmatched speed, letting you quickly take on screwheads of various sizes and shapes. If you're attacking specialized screws, engage the bit in the handle you’re replacing and pull it out of the hex-shaped end, then put in any standard 1/4-inch bit. Approximately $30. Garrett Wade
WASHINGTON, D. C. - In cooperation with the U. S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), DeWalt Industrial Tool Co., of Hampstead, Md., is recalling to repair about 660,000 corded electric screwdrivers. The screwdrivers' wiring design can result in the user being shocked. DeWalt has received reports of 40 of these screwdrivers causing shocks during use. There have been three reports of injuries resulting from these shocks. The screwdrivers were sold under the DeWalt, GRABBER, and Black & Decker Industry & Construction brandnames. The DeWalt, model numbers are DW251, DW252, DW257, DW260K, DW265, DW266, DW267, DW268, DW268G, DW269, DW272, DW274, DW us., DW274W, DW275QD (Quik Drive ), DW276, DW281, DW282 and DW284. The GRABBER model numbers are 4060 and 4063. The Black & Decker Industry & Construction model numbers are 2121, 2125 and 2141. Only numeric date codes from 9601 to 9833 are included in this recall. The date code is followed by various letters. Those date codes ending with an "R" have already been repaired. The model number and date code are located on the name plate, which is on the right hand side of the screwdriver when viewed from the back. The DeWalt and Quik Drive corded screwdrivers have a yellow housing with black accents. The GRABBER models have a black housing. The Black & Decker Industry & Construction models have a charcoal-gray housing. Major chain home centers and hardware stores, as well as local hardware stores, nationwide sold these screwdrivers from November 1996 through September 1998 for about $69 to $169, depending on the model. Consumers should stop using these screwdrivers immediately and take them to the nearest DeWalt /Black & Decker service center for a free repair. To find the nearest service center or for more information, consumers should call DeWalt toll-free at (800) us. between 8 a. m and 4.30 p. m. EST Monday through Friday. No cordless screwdrivers are affected by this recall.
Birdy Silver Looks aren't always deceiving. The strange aesthetics made this bike the most complex and frustrating folder we tested. But the goofy front-fork suspension system on this pricey nine-speed delivers a decidedly unbumpy ride. Wired Front and rear elastomers can be switched out for softer or stiffer suspension ($15 each). No-hinge design means a stronger, more durable frame. Shimano V-brakes are precise and powerful. Tired We tossed the folded bike into the trunk of a cab-and, while stowed, the chain dislodged from the gears and wedged itself between the frame and chainwheel, requiring a screwdriver (and a lot of cursing) to fix. $1,250, www. birdybike. com
Cordless Screwdrivers | Licensed to Drive Until recently, cordless screwdrivers were of little use to pros. The tools fell into the no-man's-land between manual screwdrivers and large drills and drivers. But improved batteries and power have turned cordless models into actual workhorses-in most cases.
NAREX manufactures high quality screwdrivers and woodworking chisels. NAREX offers 30 types of tools which can be purchased individually or in sets. In recent years, the company undertook a redesign of its products and began to utilize new production technology. As result, the quality of blades has increased, the shapes of the handles have been modified to become ergonomic, and the products were given a modern design. NAREX is ISO 9001 certified.
NAREX offers a wide assortment of flat screwdrivers, PH, PZ, TORX, hexagonal, electricians screwdrivers, etc. Almost all of the screwdriver types are produced in their standard edition as well as in the professional PROFI edition. Moreover, customers can choose from several different types of handles. In addition, NAREX manufactures flat chisels, plugging chisels, woodturning chisels and carving chisels. Carving chisels are available in both the standard and the professional PROFI edition. Beside screwdrivers and woodworking chisels, NAREX also produces mallets, countersinks, centre punches, mortising drills, axes etc.
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Hammers aren't the only hand tool you should have handy. Screwdrivers of all sizes and head shapes should be included in your tool box. Hand tools, mostly wrenches and screwdrivers, make great starter tool sets for teenagers and those of you who are just starting out. Hand tools will be perfect for most home projects. Remember, you won't always need a lot of power for everyday tasks.
Hi there, please can anyone describe to me the proper name for the very small phillips screwdriver that i need to open the ram cover on my medion laptop? i need to buy one but dont know what they are called!
Bobbybowls has the Rolls Royce solution. If you have a Halfords nearby, they should sell a set of 8/10 'watchmaker's screwdrivers' for around a fiver. Spade and Philips end - one of them will be fine for what you want to do.
When I last looked this forum was called the Helproom. buel wanted to know the correct name for the screwdriver that he needs for a specific part on a specific manufacturer's laptop. He gave all of the information needed and even ventured that it was a small phillips. The correct answer is a #1 Phillips screwdriver. Beta did not give the correct answer, just attempted to ridicule someone asking for help. It could have been a torq driver or a pozidrive screwdriver that was needed. Different manufacturers use different type and the type needed can change depending upon the specific component. buel, I didn't see the need for Beta to take the mick either.
You can also get 'Opticians screwdrivers', which are designed for very small screws. These are usually available at most discount stores (99p, £ shops, markets etc. Terry
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Little need be said about these tools, as their use and general shape are well known. There are several patented forms, but apparently they are principally used by amateurs, as they are rarely seen in practical shops. In quite inexperienced hands they may have some occasional advantages over the common kind, one of which is shown in Fig. 28, but with a very small amount of practice these are quite satisfactory. In one of the best and most practical patent screwdrivers the screw head is held to the edge of the blade, and so might seem to supply a want. It is, however, seldom seen in the hands of practical artisans, and the ordinary form holds its own. Fig. 28. - Ordinary Screwdriver.
This is a set of Eight Wiha Slotted and Phillips Screwdrivers.. Finger tip rotation cap for precise control Soft tactile grip Shafts are constructed of CRM72 premium tool steel with hard chromed finish Professional technician's quality. One each sl otted 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, and 3.5 size screwdrivers. One each #00, #0, #1 size phillips.more about the Wiha Tools Slotted/Phillips Screwdriver Set PicoFinish 8 pc
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This is a Bondhus 7/64'' Balldriver Hex Screwdriver--Regular Length--Inch.. Balldriver screwdrivers feature color coded and ergonomically designed handles that are comfortable to use. Only available from Bondhus, Protanium steel blades means this i s the strongest ballpoint available. Black type. Handle is proportioned to provide maximum torque without breakage. Provides the greatest time savings for maintenance, assembly, and adjustment of hexagonal socket screws. Regular.more about the Bondhus Tools Ball Driver Hex Tool 7/64'' (2)
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This is a Bondhus 5/64'' Balldriver Hex Screwdriver--Regular Length--Inch.. Balldriver screwdrivers feature color coded and ergonomically designed handles that are comfortable to use. Only available from Bondhus, Protanium steel blades means this i s the strongest ballpoint available. Black type. Handle is proportioned to provide maximum torque without breakage. Provides the greatest time savings for maintenance, assembly, and adjustment of hexagonal socket screws. Regular.more about the Bondhus Tools Ball Driver Hex Tool 5/64'' (2)
This is a Bondhus.050'' Balldriver Hex Screwdriver--Regular Length--Inch.. Balldriver screwdrivers feature color coded and ergonomically designed handles that are comfortable to use. Only available from Bondhus, Protanium steel blades means this is the strongest ballpoint available. Black type. Handle is proportioned to provide maximum torque without breakage. Provides the greatest time savings for maintenance, assembly, and adjustment of hexagonal socket screws. Regular.more about the Bondhus Tools Ball Driver Hex Tool .050'' (2)
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Today, let's talk about screwdrivers. The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them.
- his history of screwdrivers. He found that screwdrivers are surprisingly new. They've been around only a few hundred years. Why did anything so obvious take so long to invent? Actually, all sorts of things that involve
Were very hard to invent. The wheel wasn't invented until we'd had pottery and woven fabric for millennia. The hand crank was invented long after the waterwheel and indoor plumbing. The piston engine seems far more complicated than rotating turbine blades, yet we didn't have practical steam turbines until after we had telephones. All of these things seem obvious. And yet, one of the requirements for an idea to receive an American patent is that it not be obvious. Well, I can't speak for you, but I find anything that I understand obvious, and everything else incomprehensible. There's a story about a math professor at the blackboard. He reached one point in his derivation, and said, "Now it's obvious that this term can be neglected. So we. Wait a minute." And he stared at the board for five minutes. Then he excused himself and went back to his office. A half hour later, he returned with a sheaf of scribblings and said, "Yes, it is obvious we can neglect that term. So we then. " and he continued as though nothing had happened. The screwdriver is likewise so obvious that no one invented it until the eighteenth century. I find my life has been littered with transitions from incomprehensible to obvious. And so many have to do with rotary or cyclic motion. How on earth does a differential gear let the two back wheels of a car rotate at different speeds? How does a sewing machine needle work? How did escapements work on mechanical clocks? Here's another fact about screwdrivers that struck me as obvious, only after a technician pointed it out to me. He said, "I curse the guy who invented roundhead screws." And I suddenly realized that a roundhead screw offers the deepest slot to the screwdriver at its center, where the force is almost negligible. At the edge, where the force is greatest, the slot is most shallow. That makes a roundhead screw a whole lot easier to strip than a square one. But roundhead screws have about gone the way of all flesh. Most have been replaced with a dizzying variety of more efficient heads -- each one obvious in its function once we see it, but each one unimaginable before we do. Our world is afloat upon the obvious technology that flows from one person or another's non-obvious perception -- five-wheeled chairs that don't tip over, octagonal pencils that don't roll off the desk, O-ring seals. So our world divides into two parts, one obvious, one incomprehensible. The incomprehensible one is the joyous world -- filled with all the wonders yet to be invented. quantum computers, teletransporters -- and, perhaps, even the perfect screwdriver. I'm John Lienhard, at the University of Houston, where we're interested in the way inventive minds work.
For more on the history of the screwdriver, see Episode 1581. My thanks to colleagues Lewis Wheeler and Mike Dingus for their valuable counsel.
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Jon Raynor added this comment to my previous post about keeping up with the pace of change in software development. The IT field is basically a quagmire. It's better to accept that fact right away or move on to a different field. I guess someday I wish for Utopia where I won't be obsoleted when I get out of bed each and every morning. The industry needs to stop running around like a chicken with its head cut off trying to find the next big thing. The tools constantly change, but yet they do the same thing, create code to run on machines. First we get a screwdriver and learn how to use it. Then out comes the newdriver, different than the screwdriver, but does the same thing. Then out comes the phewdriver which is totally different than the screw and new driver but performs the same function of both previous tools. It's an interesting observation. I'm far from a handyman, but even I own many different screwdrivers. different sizes, different tips, different lengths. They're all performing the same job-- screwing*-- but each one is uniquely useful in the right scenario. I'd hate to throw out all the screwdrivers I own and opt for a one-size-fits-all approach. Sure, I may choose the standard screwdriver 90 percent of the time, but what about that other ten percent? So a case can be made for having multiple languages and multiple tools, redundancies and all. However, software developers are awfully eager to throw out existing tools for new ones. Unfortunately, these decisions are often based on myth and wishful thinking, and the decisions are typically made in favor of whatever the hot new thing of the moment is. Here are two mistakes that I see a lot. 1. Let's buy this whiz-bang power screwdriver that will double our productivity. A silver bullet brand screwdriver, if you will. Just replace the word "Ada" with "Ruby", below. One of the most touted recent developments is Ada, a general-purpose high-level language of the 1980's. Ada not only reflects evolutionary improvements in language concepts, but indeed embodies features to encourage modern design and modularization. Perhaps the Ada philosophy is more of an advance than the Ada language, for it is the philosophy of modularization, of abstract data types, of hierarchical structuring. Ada is over-rich, a natural result of the process by which requirements were laid on its design. That is not fatal, for subsetted working vocabularies can solve the learning problem, and hardware advances will give us the cheap MIPS to pay for the compiling costs. Advancing the structuring of software systems is indeed a very good use for the increased MIPS our dollars will buy. Operating systems, loudly decried in the 1960's for their memory and cycle costs, have proved to be an excellent form in which to use some of the MIPS and cheap memory bytes of the past hardware surge. Nevertheless, Ada will not prove to be the silver bullet that slays the software productivity monster. It is, after all, just another high-level language, and the biggest payoff from such languages came from the first transition -- the transition up from the accidental complexities of the machine into the more abstract statement of step-by-step solutions. Once those accidents have been removed, the remaining ones will be smaller, and the payoff from their removal will surely be less. I predict that a decade from now, when the effectiveness of Ada is assessed, it will be seen to have made a substantial difference, but not because of any particular language feature, nor indeed because of all of them combined. Neither will the new Ada environments prove to be the cause of the improvements. Ada's greatest contribution will be that switching to it occasioned training programmers in modern software-design techniques. 2. This screwdriver is for amateurs and hacks. We should buy a newer, more professional screwdriver. David Megginson notes the self-perpetuating cycle of successful programming languages.
It's OK to add a new screwdriver to your toolkit every few years. But make sure you're adding it for the right reasons. * Yes, it's still funny.
I think it becomes clearer to think of a programming language as a set of screwdrivers rather than making the each-programming-language = a-single-type-of-screwdriver analogy. Because certainly many programming languages utilize that standard, multi-purpose flat-head, but some add unique, niche-type screwdrivers, etc. Otherwise, I agree. It gets very tiring trying to stay abreast of things. Maybe for the whiz-bang uber-programmers it's no problem, but for some of us(i. e. me), it's hard to maintain, muchless, excel. There's just too much, even if you're trying to specialize. Kenneth
Something is not right here.. Windows = operating systems you can open and close to get air Apple = Something fresh and healthy to eat whiz-bang power screwdriver = ruby paint can = development instructions hammer and nails = MS .Net ? .. ehh I dont get it Jeff, are you the keymaker?.)
Actually, the Robertson is a better screwdriver. Canadian, too. language development was quite stable for a long time, the COBOL years. one learned a bit of syntax for a few months at some store-front programming school (or the US Armed Forces), then spent years churning out the same stuff for a particular industry. no CS degree, or even 5 minutes in a college. the methods of AutoCoder, FlowMatic, and COBOL from the 1950s and 1960s live on today. and in the enterprise world, there is a good deal of effort to move all that "software investment" to microprocessors and linux. and, there really should be a 3). hordes of wanna be Elite Programmers spewing out silly procedural code wrapped in OO syntax. aka Apache. and these are the truly evil ones, since they generate so much noise that folks just start going along. in economics there is Gresham's Law. bad money drives out good. the same can be said of languages.
If you just had screwdrivers in your toolbox, as a handyman, your screwed. You definately need a nice toolset.screwdriver (.net), plier (java), hacksaw (scripting), and hammers (Oracle, SQL Server) to excel at programming. I just don't like how I have to learn (really forced to) a new screwdriver, pliers, etc. every year. My old one that is paint covered and slightly rusty still turns screws just fine. I also agree that I'd rather have a power screw gun over a screwdriver any day, so in that respect I'd prefer VB. NET over QBASIC because there really is an advantage, not perceived or hyped. Those elite programmers.hmmm, maybe not so elite after all.
I think the problem is not one of new screwdrivers, but of *interdependent* screwdrivers. If you look at C# and compare it to how I learned to program (Fortran 77, 6502 assembly and Basic), there are more differences than just syntax and memory protection. Even moving to my first professional programs, at a very fundamental level, the way I approached programming in DOS on a 386 CPU using C and assembly differs radically from how I program today. a) I have a relational database that runs independent of my code. b) I have an operating system that handles half of the infrastructure I used to code by hand. c) I have libraries that cover the other half of the infrastructure I used to code by hand. d) I have a GUI builder that makes light work of user interface layout. e) I have different paradigms (objects, distributed computing, recoverable transactions, etc.) that underly the work itself. The interesting thing isn't the toys that allow my focus be laser like on business logic, but the fact that trying revert to "the old ways" the house of cards collapses. The GUI builder relies on partial classes, inheritance and a huge library to make it work. The libraries are possible because objects made organization of complex reusable code blocks easier. The relational database exists because I can afford to burn CPU freely and it in turn relies on the operating system to provide a stable platform to ignore many issues that are abstracted away. What we have today is built atop the structure that each prior platform gave us. In most cases, the old platforms don't entirely vanish, but instead act as supports for the new platform until the new platform stable enough to succeed. NTKERNEL still has assembly at the core, and C code around it. Windows is still C with C++. Many applications today are written in higher level languages, but they still require that C/C++ underpinning. Back on topic, the point is not only we need to acquire and learn new screwdrivers, but those screwdrivers are interdependent in ways that mean you are going to eventually drag the entire infrastructure in a given direction. By using .NET 2.0, I found myself upgrading to the new application blocks, a new version of my object relational mapping tool and SQL 2005 to get the full benefits of the new platform. I didn't upgrade my screwdriver, I upgraded my toolbox. As for Ruby, it is an interesting language which has much to commend itself. Likewisem, Rails does much to place the programmer at a higher level of abstraction when dealing with a specific application type (the data driven web app). However, because it is being built "alongside" the powerhouse application stacks I have to wonder about its long term success. Ruby on Rails has to maintain the entire stack above the OS/Web Server level as well as providing a library, which as it grows may be the undoing simply because of the overhead.
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Today, let's talk about screwdrivers. The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them.
- his history of screwdrivers. He found that screwdrivers are surprisingly new. They've been around only a few hundred years. Why did anything so obvious take so long to invent? Actually, all sorts of things that involve
Were very hard to invent. The wheel wasn't invented until we'd had pottery and woven fabric for millennia. The hand crank was invented long after the waterwheel and indoor plumbing. The piston engine seems far more complicated than rotating turbine blades, yet we didn't have practical steam turbines until after we had telephones. All of these things seem obvious. And yet, one of the requirements for an idea to receive an American patent is that it not be obvious. Well, I can't speak for you, but I find anything that I understand obvious, and everything else incomprehensible. There's a story about a math professor at the blackboard. He reached one point in his derivation, and said, "Now it's obvious that this term can be neglected. So we. Wait a minute." And he stared at the board for five minutes. Then he excused himself and went back to his office. A half hour later, he returned with a sheaf of scribblings and said, "Yes, it is obvious we can neglect that term. So we then. " and he continued as though nothing had happened. The screwdriver is likewise so obvious that no one invented it until the eighteenth century. I find my life has been littered with transitions from incomprehensible to obvious. And so many have to do with rotary or cyclic motion. How on earth does a differential gear let the two back wheels of a car rotate at different speeds? How does a sewing machine needle work? How did escapements work on mechanical clocks? Here's another fact about screwdrivers that struck me as obvious, only after a technician pointed it out to me. He said, "I curse the guy who invented roundhead screws." And I suddenly realized that a roundhead screw offers the deepest slot to the screwdriver at its center, where the force is almost negligible. At the edge, where the force is greatest, the slot is most shallow. That makes a roundhead screw a whole lot easier to strip than a square one. But roundhead screws have about gone the way of all flesh. Most have been replaced with a dizzying variety of more efficient heads -- each one obvious in its function once we see it, but each one unimaginable before we do. Our world is afloat upon the obvious technology that flows from one person or another's non-obvious perception -- five-wheeled chairs that don't tip over, octagonal pencils that don't roll off the desk, O-ring seals. So our world divides into two parts, one obvious, one incomprehensible. The incomprehensible one is the joyous world -- filled with all the wonders yet to be invented. quantum computers, teletransporters -- and, perhaps, even the perfect screwdriver. I'm John Lienhard, at the University of Houston, where we're interested in the way inventive minds work.
For more on the history of the screwdriver, see Episode 1581. My thanks to colleagues Lewis Wheeler and Mike Dingus for their valuable counsel.