By Chris Tropea
Jul 12, 2024
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Tools,
Restoration,
Shop Work,
Screwdriver
If it’s so important to use the right tool for the job, then why use a screwdriver for anything besides putting screws in?
Classic Motorsports publisher Tim Suddard shows us some of the punch tools you should be using instead of a screwdriver.
9/19/23 12:33 p.m.
I took Metal Shop in High School, I think it was my Junior year I had finished my "semester project" and needed something small to do before the end of the school year. So I grabbed some 3/8" aluminum round stock, cut it about 10" long, chucked it up in a lathe and turned an aluminum drift punch....tapered on the business end and knurled mid-way to give greasy fingers some grip. I have used it countless times over the decades. My only regret, I should have turned several of them in different sizes.
9/19/23 2:56 p.m.
Many have cursed phillips heads for slipping-out. A J.I.S. (Japanese Industrial Standard) screwdriver will help this problem. Specially designed tip grips the screw head better. VESSEAL makes one, available on amazon.
9/19/23 4:46 p.m.
The vast majority of people I have talked to did not even know there was a difference in the Phillips and A.J.I.S screws. If you only play with English cars I guess it will work, for a while.
9/19/23 6:10 p.m.
JIS drivers are wonderful things.
9/19/23 6:25 p.m.
A hand impact driver and a medium hammer have worked for me on those pesky screws, on bikes and other things since the early '60s. At least on motorcycles, I was once told that the Japanese use calibrated air-impact guns with the castings nice 'n hot, and good luck to you at the side of the road with the factory tool kit. Which I think are made of recycled coathanger steel.
1/29/24 5:28 a.m.
I don't destroy screwdrivers.
I modify them...
2/2/24 2:59 p.m.
I need to get a set.
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