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Title: Novelty screwTrivers
Post by: skipskip on January 04, 2019, 10:17:20 PM
sometimes you have to just shake your head

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Title: Re: Novelty screwTrivers
Post by: john k on January 04, 2019, 10:45:42 PM
Interesting,  probably would have boughten them too
Title: Re: Novelty screwTrivers
Post by: mvwcnews on January 05, 2019, 09:55:01 AM
Several tool makers (including H.D. Smith & Mayhew ) made "three bit" screwdrivers early in the 20th Century -- to turn screws in "hard to reach" places, and to apply the extra  "oomph"  you get by having  the bit at an angle to the handle -- like the "offset handle" screwdrivers.
Title: Re: Novelty screwTrivers
Post by: Papaw on January 05, 2019, 09:58:16 AM
A company named JAWCO makes them. http://handtools.jawco.com/item/all-categories/screwdrivers-flexible-shaft-and-offset-2/st20 (http://handtools.jawco.com/item/all-categories/screwdrivers-flexible-shaft-and-offset-2/st20)
Title: Re: Novelty screwTrivers
Post by: bonneyman on January 05, 2019, 10:45:50 PM
Ha-Ha, I was going to say someone commercialized a tool that I'm betting all of us have done at one time or another - use a screwdriver as a chisel!
Title: Re: Novelty screwTrivers
Post by: p_toad on January 06, 2019, 06:33:07 PM
I thought the JAWCO looked familiar and realized i'm sitting next to four of their thread files.   They make nice stuff right here in the US and if i recall right, the son was running the company his father started.   Good people. 
Title: Re: Novelty screwTrivers
Post by: lptools on January 06, 2019, 06:54:33 PM
Hello, Peter. I really like the re-threading tap & die sets!!!! Regards, Lou
Title: Re: Novelty screwTrivers
Post by: mikeswrenches on January 08, 2019, 06:21:49 AM
Kind of the same idea as the rare Perfect Handle SD with the 3 tips.

Mike