handy WERA quality screwdriver kit

[gordonr]

used by many joiners and kitchen fitters because of their hardwearing attachments , costly but worth it

[happy diver]

I've been looking not very hard mind for a short phillips allen torx bit kit
with a pressed steel ratchet for doing mud flaps, guard liners with wheels on
and other restrictive stuff, but to find all that with an extension or two in a
kit is hard, as by the time you collect what you want in what is available
it will cost a fortune with 50 rubbish bits left over.
Where I haven't looked very hard at the moment over here anyway.

Having been involved in the wood inside houses industry for almost four decades
I don't think I have seen even a real joiner use a screwdriver in that period
We may have waved one around about fifteen years ago crafting a full size slate billiard table
Hammering rusted or painted in slotted screws may be the exception
Also with hundreds and hundreds of kitchens and cabinets and furniture
rushing though my hands and before my eyes the only tool of choice is the
air screwdriver with a short extension and a short phillips bit, which works out
at about two thirds the length of those in the photo.
On site for installations we use a couple of cordless drills which are so painfully slow and awkward
that you would almost prefer to do a marathon man on yourself.

Because when you get used to the driving power and speed of the air tools you can basically pull the tool off the job whilst it is still moving to leave the screw flush or add pressure and drive the screw to the depth that you want it

You know I think years ago we used electric drills with screwdrivers with hacked off handles tightened into the chuck.
Unscrewing stuff using the chuck as a handle was a bit crap, reversible drills heaven.

Wow, what a load of cobblers.

You know, I just made and bought a bunch of trim tools to strip a car interior
still managed to find a use for trusty big bertha the screwdriver a few times for poking and prodding.

And small bertha too.

Wow, what a load of cobblers!

[Dancake]

Yato 1/4 ratchet set is pretty comprehensive and decent quality. Wera make excellent quality tools though.

[Matt86]

They are expensive but I love my little 1/4 rachet set by teng tools!

[happy diver]

I've got that Yato type stuff.
The pull apart Teng ratchet is cool.

Found it...............

http://www.google.com.au/imgres?imgu...d=0CDsQMygVMBU

Now for the bits and extensions search again

Here is a cool really site

http://www.ozwrenches.com/orphans.htm

[gordonr]

changed days ! when i was an apprentice every joiner had a stanley yankee screwdriver


i,d love to hand and apprentice one of those, a few other tools plus a bit and brace and a wheelbrace and get him to fit a mortice lock !

[GaryS40]

Bahco do a nice little set too.

Usually get it for around £20.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bahco-SL25...item4ae5b73e1a

Gary

[GaryS40]

Also got a set of these, recently.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Wera-Kraft...item540d4af637

Not cheap, but insulated to 1000V.

Gary

[GaryS40]

Originally Posted by gordonr

changed days ! when i was an apprentice every joiner had a stanley yankee screwdriver


i,d love to hand and apprentice one of those, a few other tools plus a bit and brace and a wheelbrace and get him to fit a mortice lock !

My dad had a Yankee driver and a brace in the shed from his 'ship's carpenter' days.

I must admit though, even at my age, I am a 'power tool' man.

Gary

[happy diver]

Carpenters used that spiral driver thingo into the seventies
We used a brace at home when I was a younger kid,
it was my favourite shadow on the pegboard
Most recently I've been using a spiral thing with a hook to tie reo together
But using a speed brace on small jobs when turning on the compressor is too much is fun.
Mainly a top of engine tool I think