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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: sumner52000 on June 03, 2012, 02:12:19 PM

Title: Odd screwdriver
Post by: sumner52000 on June 03, 2012, 02:12:19 PM
Picked this up at the flea market yesterday.  Anyone know anything about it?  Is it home made or some school project?  Was it once another tool that becaame a screwdriver after being broken?  My questions arise because of how short the handle is.  Would a tool company make something with such a short handle? No makers marks.
Title: Re: Odd screwdriver
Post by: 1930 on June 03, 2012, 03:27:56 PM
My Guess is it looks like a driver whereas the handle has been broken and cleaned off
Title: Re: Odd screwdriver
Post by: Nolatoolguy on June 03, 2012, 03:36:19 PM
My guess is either a shop class project or a slaveged screwdriver from something else or a larger screwdrive. Havent seen the grooves like that on other scewdrivers that are all metal. Either way its not a bad piece.
Title: Re: Odd screwdriver
Post by: rusty on June 03, 2012, 05:51:56 PM

ditto, the fine grooves were to keep the plastic handle it originally had from spinning on the shaft, look at the ferrule (like) area, it is designed to back up the bottom end of a larger handle...

I would still keep it tho, I used to have a set of screwdrivers with short thin handles for turning adjusting screws, sometimes a lot of torque is NOT a good thing ;P

PS: Hammering on plastic handles on screwdrivers where the steel shaft is short inside the handle tends to split the handle right down the middle....
PPS: Don't ask how I know that....