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Online skipskip

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Novelty screwTrivers
« on: January 04, 2019, 10:17:20 PM »
sometimes you have to just shake your head

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Offline john k

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Re: Novelty screwTrivers
« Reply #1 on: January 04, 2019, 10:45:42 PM »
Interesting,  probably would have boughten them too
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Re: Novelty screwTrivers
« Reply #2 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.
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Re: Novelty screwTrivers
« Reply #3 on: January 05, 2019, 09:58:16 AM »
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Re: Novelty screwTrivers
« Reply #4 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!
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Re: Novelty screwTrivers
« Reply #5 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. 
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Re: Novelty screwTrivers
« Reply #6 on: January 06, 2019, 06:54:33 PM »
Hello, Peter. I really like the re-threading tap & die sets!!!! Regards, Lou
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Re: Novelty screwTrivers
« Reply #7 on: January 08, 2019, 06:21:49 AM »
Kind of the same idea as the rare Perfect Handle SD with the 3 tips.

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