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Screwdrivers.

wessex
How many does an electrician need ?
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    No  mention yet about a yankee screwdriver.
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    Sparkingchip:

    Something like this is very handy, note the holes in the ends of the bits.

    https://www.screwfix.com/p/hex-shank-mixed-security-bit-set-33-pieces/2840v


    the two pronged bits are useful when repairing the plumbers extension lead for him ?


    Be Careful Andy. Some folk Screwfix is a swear word!?


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    A main contractor was not amused, in fact really miffed with me when I used some some of those screws of "tamperproof" design to be used with a "three hex" bit. Actually they could be removed with a simple hex key. But it did cause a bit of fun.


    Any well self respecting organised criminal carries all the security type bits anyway
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    I remember my first sighting of a Yankee,as  a group of apprentices we were being shown around a cruise liner under construction and saw a joiner fixing stud work with one 1973
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    wessex:

    No  mention yet about a yankee screwdriver.




    The Yankee was such a versatile tool. Screwdriver, hammer, apprentice corrector.....


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    Ah Yes, just slightly more effort than the electric impact!


     
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    wessex:

    No  mention yet about a yankee screwdriver.


    See 3 days ago. Mine has room in the handle for various bits - flat, cross-head, or even drills (presumably for pilot holes).


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    Back in the 1970’s I went on a school trip to the railway engineering works at Doncaster, the joiners fitting out the carriages were allowed to use Yankee screwdrivers, but had to remove the spring and pull them back by hand, so that if they slipped they didn’t shoot out across a veneered panel and wreck it.


    One of my lecturers at college back then had previously worked at the lift manufacturers in Barnsley and likewise they had to remove the springs from their Yankees for the same reason.
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    The whole concept of 'security' heads is flawed, as their effectiveness is very short lived, before it becomes just another tool to carry.

    Personally for home I have a box of drivers, nut spinners, allen keys  and similar tools that is too heavy to carry more than a short stagger, and even then items come in where I still occasionally end up detouring via the workshop to grind bits off or to spin something up in the lathe for a recalcitrant fastener.

    Then there are all the other tools, for crimping, forming cutting... (including a set of long nosed pliers with rounded jaws for forming wires to defined radii bends.. ) Oh and a box of cheaper tools of no great value for Mrs mapj1 to open tins of paint and pliers to lend out on scout camp..


    For work those tools are not mine, but even then  I have been known to help the company by bringing in some of my own from time to time.


    M.
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    Andy, that was always a bit of a risk but the spring is essential really. The same goes for electric screwdrivers and slotted screws. That is why Phillips and Pozidriv ones were invented though, both work fine with Yankee drivers. In fact having got them out I will use them a bit for old times sake

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