I'm looking to get a screwdriver and bit set that will deal with any and all types of screw fitting, including those tiny types of Torx and star fitting that you don't get with the pound shop bits, which do have Torx and star, but not the smaller sizes. Aimed at opening things inside computer cases and electronics cases than anything else. Useful if can get mini socket heads with it too. Probably 50-60 different heads total.
You not looked at Ebay then ? Item 290361335814
For the small stuff standard 1/4" hex drive and the associated drivers are not that easy to handle to big and heavy for a tiny fastner. Much better to get set of proper drivers for the small sizes of torx and allen(?) (torx is what I whould call "star"...).
Also be aware that the steel used in cheap sets with several tens of bits may have more resemblance to toffee than steel.
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Snag is all the ones I've seen are based on a 1/4" hex drive system which means the shank is too big to allow access to deeply recessed smaller screws. For those you tend to need discrete screwdriver sets. Of course they could make longer waisted bits - but my guess is they would break either themselves or the screws due to the torque available from the large handle. And put up the cost considerably. The same sort of thing applies to small sockets - the standard 1/4" drive is too big for the smaller sizes if recessed. So you tend to need proper nut spinners for those. Universal sets do appeal in theory, but the practice is usually rather different. Maplin have a fair selection of these small specialist screwdriver sets.
Surely not an endorsement of Rolson?!
I've always thought of them as taking the term "toffee hammer" literally.
Well I was sceptical - but someone bought me the above as a present, and to be fair it seems well enough made and the bits are properly hardened etc. The shanks are thin enough to reach most recessed screws as well.
I've a Rolson wheel-brace and the only critcism is that the thread on the chuck is a tad too coarse and can work loose at times.
Heh, I've cut a slot in the rear end of the bits before so they'll take a conventional slotted screwdriver with a long shaft. So long as the screwdriver's magnetised, the bit comes out happily with the screwdriver...
(it was that or I was finding places were charging ten quid or more for long-shaft drivers which had the more oddball tips to them)
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